Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These developments are most likely to affect urban dwellers and those displaced people and migrants in the urban areas who can not afford even small charges for their children 's education . |
| 2 | Incentive schemes ( previously described ) with agreed local benefits , such as the provision of more health visitors , are most likely to reassure general practitioners on this point . |
| 3 | Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information . |
| 4 | Among the Coleoptera , the fore wings are much hardened to form horny sheaths or elytra , which protect the hind wings when these are in repose . |
| 5 | Furthermore , artists who are also critics are especially likely to make vivid comments on the methods and techniques of old art . |
| 6 | Henry VII had been sufficiently discreet to avoid continental entanglements and their resulting expense , but his son was more concerned with illusory glory than with real power . |
| 7 | In these judicial negotiations and compromises , the wealthy , privileged , and powerful are better able to secure favourable outcomes than their less powerful counterparts ( Box 1981a : 157–207 ) . |
| 8 | I have heard that some of you are concerned about your teaching and feel that things are changing but I am sure your fears are unwarranted , as you are all able to run successful classes in your own style . |
| 9 | It may be a case for argument that people are less willing to accept patronising notions from people in superior positions . |
| 10 | Needless to say , small firms are less able to maintain high levels of bank deposits and they are not given the priority accorded to the privileged class of borrowers among large companies . |
| 11 | Added to this is the inevitable realization of elderly people that they are less able to build new friendships , make new relationships , take on new responsibilities and tasks . |
| 12 | Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs . |
| 13 | There is extensive research evidence that disabled and elderly people who are living with someone else , particularly when this includes a non-elderly married female relative , are less likely to receive statutory services than are those living alone ( Qureshi and Walker , 1986 , 1989 ; Arber et al . , |
| 14 | Generally speaking , female workers are less likely to undertake traditional forms of industrial action , and this may have a growing impact on the role of the labour movement in future decades . |
| 15 | Using one minus the proportion of the workforce holding unskilled , semi-skilled or clerical jobs as a proxy for the level of skill of the workforce , Table 3.12 suggests that , at least with fixed-term contract workers , employers ' behaviour is as expected — establishments with a highly skilled labour force are less likely to use temporary workers . |
| 16 | Compared to whites , blacks are less likely to acquire educational qualifications , their marriages are more likely to end in separation or divorce and they are more likely to have a criminal record . |
| 17 | The narrower range of discretion of each bureau in selecting production processes should mean that review committees are less likely to include strong representations by those with an interest in any given bureau 's output . |
| 18 | Older people are less likely to consume alcoholic drinks than the younger age groups and those who do drink consume less than their younger contemporaries . |
| 19 | A third possibility is that physicians are less likely to admit elderly patients to the hospital for treatment , so that age 's effect on mortality is exerted before admission . |
| 20 | They are less likely to write anonymous letters to the DHSS about widows and war pensioners : ‘ After all ’ they say , ‘ how she lives is her own business : she ( or her husband ) earned her benefit ’ . |
| 21 | Women with dependent children are less likely to have full-time jobs but more likely to have part-time jobs , than women without . |
| 22 | Nodes on different levels which are mutually consistent have excitatory connections between them . |
| 23 | Nodes at the same level which are mutually exclusive have inhibitory connections between them . |
| 24 | The main objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the processes by which dominant firms achieve and maintain dominance in their markets and industries ; to explore the determinants of profitability of these firms ( especially the role of investment in R&D ) , particularly where they are apparently able to earn high profits persistently over time ; to evaluate their dynamic efficiency in terms of new products , improved quality and cost-reducing new technology ; and to inform and strengthen the policy analysis of dominant firms . |
| 25 | But as the season 's prices are going to depend on the official harvest estimate , most traders are only prepared to offer two-stage deals , with perhaps £200/t now and the balance to come after October . |
| 26 | If there is sufficient agreement amongst members of specialist interest groups ( ‘ invisible colleges ’ ) that delays in publication within their fields are at unacceptable levels , then commercial publishers are generally willing to establish new journals which will reduce overall delays by increasing the total numbers of papers published . |
| 27 | If there is sufficient agreement amongst members of specialist interest groups ( ’ invisible colleges ’ ) that delays in publication within their fields are at unacceptable levels , then commercial publishers are generally willing to establish new journals which will reduce overall delays by increasing the total numbers of papers published . |
| 28 | Do n't you think there 's a danger that if people are disappointed they 're more ready to try extreme solutions ? |
| 29 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 30 | But it makes sense to limit your activity — if you exercise outdoors when air quality is poor , you 're more likely to suffer adverse effects . |