Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 2 | There are spacious loungers , a bar providing waiter service to the garden terrace , a restaurant that opens onto the lovely gardens offering buffet style breakfast , and a mixed buffet and waiter service dinner . |
| 3 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 4 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 5 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 6 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 7 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
| 8 | We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances . |
| 9 | 8 Consider other forms of giveaway where products are unsuitable to offer as samples or gifts . |
| 10 | The cones are receptive to colour and to higher lighting levels . |
| 11 | Environmentalists are right to argue for strong controls on the way waste is managed . |
| 12 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
| 13 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 14 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
| 16 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 17 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 18 | In Shenley , Hertfordshire , and Epsom , Surrey , plans are afoot to build residential houses , even though the plots of land are right smack inside the greenbelt . |
| 19 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 20 | They are right to do so , because it can lead to serious problems if it persists . |
| 21 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 22 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 23 | Tyacke 's critics are right to point out that he and other historians have been too preoccupied with the theological disputes within the academic communities of pre-civil war England . |
| 24 | These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality . |
| 25 | Considerations like these make scientists feel that they are right to take a philosophically realist view of the results of their researches ; to suppose that they are finding out the way things are . |
| 26 | I believe that we are right to wait until the independent report has been received , but I assure my right hon. Friend and the House that all EC partners who have worked well together on this are carefully considering future relations in the light of what appears to have happened , as shown on the video which so many of us have seen and which the families of the people involved have had to witness in their suffering . |
| 27 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 29 | You are right to remind us . |
| 30 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |