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Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	— Margaret Thatcher ‘ Although it is uncomfortable , the note which is being sounded is not bad ; it is one of being prepared to take occasionally rough and unpopular decisions in the belief that they will work through successfully . ’
2	The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t .
3	When you have learnt these techniques , your reward will be the sheer delight of being able to set up any performance , no matter how heavy the workload ; with the minimum of trial and error , whilst simultaneously maintaining accurate navigation and approach procedures .
4	By the third day of the war , Pentagon officials boasted of being able to drop as much as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad — double the amount dropped by Allies during the 1945 bombing of Dresden .
5	The days of being able to pay off small amounts are gone , Mrs Snowball said .
6	Bingham enjoys the reputation of being able to get so much out of so little , making the most of limited resources .
7	If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue .
8	Pagers are expected to be incorporated into telepoint telephones , offsetting the disadvantage of being able to make only outgoing calls .
9	Could it be that they do not have the stomach for the hard grind which seems to be necessary to pick up those all important computer points ?
10	In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder .
11	It was later found to be useful to set up separate databases for each functional group , which prevented earlier versions of the full database being corrupted as experiments in sorting and producing reports were carried out .
12	It has to be possible to produce spontaneously original sentences which are based on implicit rules which allow generalisation .
13	Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark :
14	These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) .
15	But it does n't seem to be worthwhile to chuck out all the bits of paper we 've got and replace them all just to get the colour right .
16	By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports .
17	‘ Customers seem to be willing to buy as many flavours of Windows as Microsoft wants to sell , but are balking at buying more than one flavour of network . ’
18	Services that do work to plans tend to be those employing professionally qualified staff , who act as advisers or consultants with regard to pedagogical methods and policy , or provide direct help to youngsters .
19	You know , i i you need to be full to fill up that area because well , you know yourself , people like to stand around the bar do n't they ?
20	‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game .
21	‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game .
22	So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more .
23	As resource allocation is a ‘ zero sum game ’ ( that is , authorities can gain only at the expense of others ) it seems essential to be able to explain why different formulas produce different results in terms other than the composition of the formulas .
24	But a woman , who , when her own needs are n't met , and when she 's slowly disintegrating , is not going to be able to give very much to the children , or give as much as she could , so it makes sense , if she 's really concerned about those children , that she will put , quite often , her own needs above them in order to get her act together , so that she 's in control and feels good about what she 's doing so she 'll be able to give more .
25	For instance , it is often convenient to be able to estimate how many nodes there are in the whole tree .
26	It is a truism that every woman wants to be able to choose how many children she has .
27	Though the Court of Appeal is also a court of supervision , it appears to be too busy to be able to devote as much time and thought as is needed to such cases .
28	People seem to be able to use prior syntactic and semantic context to select a word even before the discrimination point specified by the phonological description ( Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980 , Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) .
29	Mind you , he must have gigantic nose-holes to be able to blow out all that smoke . ’
30	They wo n't be able to just move on because their permanent pitches , what they call permanent pitches which I 'm not sure exactly what it is , but that is what they 're called , so presumably I mean they 're not going to be able to move on all of a sudden .