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

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1 This makes allowance for installing heaters in the gallery area which we are due to take back in hand at the end of September .
2 Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds .
3 It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars .
4 The television , for many old people who are afraid to go out at night , an important link with the outside world and the sources of ent entertainment .
5 They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out .
6 So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night .
7 The project examines this case in detail and considers methods for improving the accuracy of the approximation which are easy to carry out in practice .
8 You 're supposed to come on to parade with clean boots , Jones ! ( condition 3 )
9 ‘ Whenever you 're ready to go up into town .
10 These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) .
11 Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent .
12 avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five .
13 The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy .
14 People in regions with low house prices are usually unable to afford to purchase a house in a higher priced area , whereas those in the higher priced areas are unwilling to move out in view of the lower capital gains to be made .
15 There have been long spells out of work through a mixture of choice and lack of good stuff : ‘ I do n't think there are that many things that one wants to do . ’
16 Mothers characterised by a high level of indifference towards their child or children are unlikely to look out for mother and toddler groups in their locality .
17 But since the Vietnamese Zone of Peace and Stability has won little support they have been reluctant to reject out of hand the ZOPFAN proposal if this eventually could provide the basis of a long-term settlement of the disputes between Indo-China and the ASEAN states and encourage a military disengagement of the ASEAN states from the West .
18 And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ?
19 Had Ross Brown been able to touch down on completion of his powerful break ( or Nick Penny been able to cleanly gather his pass ) off a Derrick Lee snipe after Scotland had levelled at 8-8 in the second half , then a steal might have materialised .
20 A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time .
21 Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth .
22 It would be awful to sit around in pitch black .
23 ‘ I 'm sorry to turn up without warning like this , ’ Kelly said .
24 As we 've in fact transferred to oil , those coal heaps in many cases have actually been cleaned up and build on , so as oil runs out it perhaps will not be possible to reconvert back to coal use in some factories simply because the space for storage wo n't exist .
25 Thinking she was free of him and that it might be possible to keep out of harm 's way until Peter returned , she hurried up the steps into the hall .
26 But it would be unrealistic to leave out of account the fact that Pilkington was a knight of the king 's body and one , moreover , owed a favour for his support of Edward in 1471 .
27 But it would be unrealistic to leave out of account the fact that Pilkington was a knight of the king 's body and one , moreover , owed a favour for his support of Edward in 1471 .
28 BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ .
29 For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage ; for more experienced clients a shorter approach may be appropriate .
30 For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage .
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