Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 2 | Anyway it would have been foolish to force someone into a life so demanding . |
| 3 | And it , they 're likely to need something like a further twenty thousand pounds er , if they do n't have sufficient funds to continue to at the balance of this financial year . |
| 4 | erm you 're likely to get plenty of no 's . |
| 5 | If you have one that does n't compact , you you 're best to have one in the middle cos it 's less likely to get pranged there is n't it ? |
| 6 | The left-hand page is where you plan , the right-hand page is where you record , the end of the day you are supposed to record one with t' other , and carry forward unfinished business to the next day . |
| 7 | At first the hotel had been unwilling to employ someone with a young daughter . |
| 8 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 9 | Mahmoud had been unable to uncover anything of a personal nature which might have prompted the attack . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We are reluctant to take anyone off the poll tax register , for obvious reasons . |
| 11 | As the chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training has indicated , appointment committees are reluctant to appoint anyone over the age of 35 for fear that they are so near the age of 40 that they will be unable to obtain a consultant post and will linger , blocking their senior registrar post . |
| 12 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 13 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 14 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 15 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 16 | The general principle is shown in the photograph , and with a little ingenuity it should be possible to devise something of the sort . |
| 17 | When combined with archaeological evidence of settlement distribution , age and function it will be possible to reconstruct something of the lives of people since the first settlers arrived in the area over 7,000 years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always said I 'm prepared to pay something for a pass and other people are , too . |
| 19 | To gain the most benefit from installing a desk top publishing system you must be prepared to learn something about the general area of printing . |
| 20 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps he 'd be willing to take someone without a dowry . |
| 22 | It will be interesting to know something of the history too . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen |
| 24 | Not that it mattered ( I told myself again ) one way or the other , but now that my brother 's arrival was postponed at least until Monday , it would be good to have something of the story checked . |
| 25 | Population history ignores political or military chronology ; it requires a long view and it will be helpful to take one at the outset by considering the years between 1880 and 1945 as a whole . |
| 26 | To understand Theory Z , it will be helpful to know something about the characteristics of large Japanese firms . |
| 27 | Nor do I think they will be able to charge anything like the premium they used to ; in fact , it 's debatable whether they 'll be able to charge a premium at all . ’ |
| 28 | not with squirrels , no er I do n't think so but I mean you , you might be able to do something with a vole , or something like that and trap them but I 'm just wondering Stefan could it also be a fox ? |
| 29 | Oxfam is regularly approached with inventions and has not yet decided whether it will be able to do something with the ’ friendly fuel ’ . |
| 30 | He had no idea that he would ever be able to do anything about the predicament . |