Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit . |
| 2 | Hearn and Doyle are certain to be vocal at the WPBSA 's annual general meeting at Bristol on December 29 . |
| 3 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |
| 4 | And even though many schools and school authorities in the United States were slow to be convinced , the 19605 was the decade of the famous Knapp School Libraries Project , of federal grants for multi-media developments under the Elementary and Secondary Education Acts , and of the development of the electronic study carrel and dial-access . |
| 5 | Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well . |
| 6 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 7 | Yet while InterCity is supposed to be one business , offering consistent standards throughout Britain , many regional differences in what the traveller actually experiences die slowly . |
| 8 | Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital . |
| 9 | Edward was fortunate to be able to do only half his job and escape condemnation . |
| 10 | Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight . |
| 11 | Those in favour of a Europe à la Maastricht are right to be concerned . |
| 12 | I think we all recognise that traffic issues here in Cambridge are likely to be controversial issues and I think we 'd all equally recognise that er the joint traffic management sub- committee has made considerable progress in recent years in the provision of cycle lanes for example , in dealing with illegal parking er on the city 's road and in improving the environment for pedestrians in our main shopping streets . |
| 13 | And yet he is the man who first made this needless quarrel , and now inflames it even when Glendower is disposed to be reasonable . |
| 14 | Though living chiefly in England , Morris was proud to be Welsh , admiring the Welsh character and abhorring the English class system . |
| 15 | West Indies are likely to be unchanged with sell-out crowds of 24,000 expected for both games . |
| 16 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 17 | Andrew O'Donnell is lucky to be alive . |
| 18 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 19 | WHY EX-NEIGHBOURS STAR KRISTIAN IS HAPPY TO BE SINGLE |
| 20 | The planned nuclear station at Hinkley Point in Somerset is unlikely to be cheaper than a coal-fired one at any realistic rate of return . |
| 21 | Arthur is inclined to be delicate and it 's feared he has not long to live . |
| 22 | Shelley was unwilling to be alone with Miguel , in case his gentle conversation got through to her , and uncovered her sensitivity that she tried so hard to hide . |
| 23 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 24 | Thus , Mr Kaifu is likely to be re-elected president of his Liberal Democratic Party next month , and retain the post of prime minister . |
| 25 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 26 | Given his attitude , then , Beveridge was likely to be favourable towards a retirement condition . |
| 27 | Perhaps Irina was right to be alarmed . |
| 28 | Similar local developments and open entry are being negotiated at other IBM locations but Greenock was proud to be first . |
| 29 | LDP members who lost their seats included Sadanori Yamanaka , former chairman of the party 's research commission on the tax system and architect of the widely hated consumption tax , and Hisao Horinouchi , the former Minister of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries , who , during the July 1989 election campaign , had suggested that women were useless in politics and that Doi was unfit to be Prime Minister because she was unmarried and childless [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 30 | I call ‘ conservative ’ , for the purposes of the discussion in this chapter , Christologies which hold the maleness of Christ to be essential to his nature , and the fact that Christ was male to be central to Christianity . |