Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the diversity of employment among the newcomers this formal method of association is usually necessary to bring the population together . |
| 2 | In the case of visitors , knowledge of risk plus entry is not sufficient to amount to volenti . |
| 3 | Also , the rate of use in public libraries is generally higher , so that physical dilapidation of stock is more likely to set in , and oblige staff to weed . |
| 4 | However , the deal is not likely to appease European industry . |
| 5 | The Scotsman understands that the deal is now unlikely to go ahead and a minority shareholder in Bank of Edinburgh , the Brighton-based Family Assurance Society , confirmed that there were difficulties . |
| 6 | Since the strategy which a subject adopts towards an experimental task is under his own control , unless otherwise constrained , any visual field asymmetry found in a particular experiment is as likely to reflect aspects of information processing as any intrinsic difference between the hemispheres for the task in question ( e.g. Ross and Turkewitz , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | As we move into our twenties and thirties , hormones are no longer racing through the body like the clappers and , from time to time , the penis is more likely to cause embarrassment by its lack of activity than by its exuberance . |
| 8 | In mass communication , feedback is more likely to take the form of audience research or sales figures , phone calls or letters . |
| 9 | Lammert is also keen to shorten the stay of each student at university , but is aware of how difficult and unpopular this would be in a time of high unemployment . |
| 10 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |
| 11 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 12 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 13 | In the United States the President is elected every four years and , according to the constitution since President Eisenhower , no president is constitutionally eligible to remain in office for more than two successive four-year terms . |
| 14 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 15 | The defendant is only entitled to have your client examined by their medical expert . |
| 16 | This may sound difficult to achieve , but if surplus soil is used to lift the area behind the pool , or a rock garden is constructed to the rear , then the illusion is remarkably simple to contrive . |
| 17 | The children on the roundabout can be made as intricate as your time or patience allows — the effect of the girl 's plaits streaming in the wind is quite easy to achieve . |
| 18 | As a result , an allowable capital loss is less likely to arise . |
| 19 | The future of the two alliances is in the balance , and the Soviet side is already eager to restructure the Warsaw Pact into something which may look more like the Commonwealth than the Moscow-dominated monolith of the still recent past . |
| 20 | A number of studies have indicated that , in right handers , shock to the left side of the head impairs verbal learning , memory and word finding ( Zamora and Kaebling , 1965 ; Gottlieb and Wilson , 1965 ; Halliday , Davidson , Brown and Kreeger , 1968 ; Fleminger , Horne and Nott , 1970 ; Pratt and Warrington , 1972 ) while shock to the right side is more likely to impair non-verbal functions ( Cohen , Noblin and Silverman , 1968 ; Berent , Cohen and Silverman , 1975 ; D'Elia , Lorentzson , Raotma and Widepalm , 1976 ; Berent , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Like his other courses this one-year programme will comprise a mix of practical and business studies , though the practical side is more likely to look at machining , timber technology and forestry . |
| 22 | However heartless and unfair this may seem to human eyes , the end result is more likely to achieve the parent owl 's purpose of successfully launching a new generation . |
| 23 | While some of the same satirical zest is evident in The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ) , Lester 's chronicle of a post-holocaust world where a stunned Ralph Richardson imagines he is turning into a bedsitter and a doctor tries to keep the old traditions alive by having someone read the BBC News , and the film shows evidence of a superabundant imagination , the narrative is too unfocused for the satirical barbs to hit home , and the result is often tedious to watch . |
| 24 | In each of these examples , however , the nuance is too fugitive to provide uncontroversial basis for discussion . |
| 25 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 26 | The mandatory penalty does indeed serve to mark out murder from other crimes , but whether the definition of murder is sufficiently refined to capture the worst killings , and only the worst killings , remains to be discussed below . |
| 27 | The club is also delighted to welcome new members and their partners of any playing standard and offers , among other things , access to some 300 court hours a year for a mere £10 annual subscription . |
| 28 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 29 | Posidonius is less easy to fault , given the scant numbers of fragments . |
| 30 | Such a photograph is more likely to help sell the newspapers ! |