Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 2 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 3 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
| 4 | ‘ The questions on education are likely to reflect badly on the children even though everyone involved may be dong their utmost for them . ’ |
| 5 | Whether the last two antics are viable depends entirely on the context . |
| 6 | Estimates of the number of returning nurses are difficult to gauge accurately on an annual yearly basis , although the UKCC has placed an educated guess through manpower enquiries at 2500 a year . |