Example sentences of "[adj] is [adj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It may be found from testing that this is impossible to achieve due to the ambiguity in previous word positions .
2 This is essential to bridge sectoral barriers , to ensure cohesive and effective group work in obtaining reliable analyses of local circumstances , and in utilising local resources to the full .
3 This is insufficient to meet all requirements immediately , and so priorities are being agreed between Computing Sub-Group and Estates .
4 This is necessary to make sure we are functioning in a realistic way , that we are not kidding ourselves that we have abilities that we do not , but more importantly , to ensure we are not allowing our inabilities to nullify our abilities .
5 Peter Roberts of Kuperard , who launched the charity scheme last year , says this is enough to purchase 350 mats ( against the 90 he was able to distribute last year ) , and he is planning to hand them out in the second week of January .
6 And — good grief — the news that it is successful and powerful females saying this is enough to make strong women weep into their double gins .
7 Do you think this is enough to provide safe buildings for children ?
8 Listen , listen very carefully shh , because this is important to get right , erm , because the assign because the assignments are part of your degree mark , and have to go to the external examiner , and has to be monitored etcetera etcetera etcetera , it 's all quite formal and so we do need to get this right .
9 Well , I mean , this is important to read this than turn up at the garage .
10 Although this is unlikely to happen this year , the astrological pointers are that it will occur before the end of l993 .
11 Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long .
12 However , this is unlikely to cause any difficulties in the context of commercial operations : it is well known that documents of the kind on which standard terms of business are likely to be printed , such as orders , acknowledgments and delivery notes , commonly include contract terms .
13 Although around 300,000-400,000 square feet of office space ( some 1% of the City 's total supply ) will be needed by firms hit by the bomb , this is unlikely to have much effect on London 's troubled commercial-property market .
14 It plans to boost public investment again , but this is unlikely to make much difference : public investment accounts for only 7% of GNP .
15 Again , this is unlikely to win any favour with the population at large .
16 All of this is unlikely to present much of a problem to most of the larger operators with their own hygiene and quality control management , although even they will need to ensure that any programme of training and retraining of personnel is controlled and recorded .
17 But this is unlikely to prevent regular fierce exchanges between Dr Kumar and Mr Bates as unalike in personality as East Cleveland and Middlesbrough .
18 This is sufficient to hold most video camcorder shoots without the inconvenience of changing cassettes in the middle , a drawback encountered on VHS-C .
19 This is sufficient to dislodge any particles .
20 This is supposed to have greater survival value in regard to social functions like nest-egg guarding , and to aid some kinds of brain activity .
21 This is likely to deter all but the most committed from full compliance . ’
22 This is likely to facilitate subsequent decision-making and can provide useful material for discussion at the next session .
23 Please let me know if this is likely to cause any serious problems .
24 In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems .
25 In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems .
26 Unfortunately , this is likely to become worse , although judicious use of pain-killers may overcome the worst effects .
27 This is likely to prove expensive for schools with more experienced teachers .
28 In practice a resolution of 0·02 eV ( 20 meV ) is attainable with a relatively simple design using UV sources , and this is adequate to show vibrational features ( characteristically ∼ 0·1 eV ) .
29 The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks .
30 For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient .
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