Example sentences of "[be] [adj] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed all countries have been guilty of tampering with the ball and conceded : ‘ We do n't know what we are going to do , and the countries do n't know the answer . |
| 2 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 3 | But , they say they 're confident of beating off the developers once again . |
| 4 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 5 | We seem somehow , to be shy of shouting from the rooftops of our many , many achievements over the years , here in the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 6 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 8 | Eurobankers are beginning to be chary of lending to the nationalized industries and state authorities of even big countries in balance of payments deficits . |
| 9 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sick of hearing about the money Lennox Lewis , Frank Bruno and Chris Eubank are earning , ’ said the 30-year-old WBO champion , making his first defence of the 8st 10lb title . |
| 11 | So , the answer is that the strongest motives restrain Governments from limiting the rate of growth of public expenditure to that rate which they could be sure of meeting within the growth of the national product and thus without any substantial increase in taxation but also without relying upon borrowing and without monetisation of debt . |
| 12 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 13 | Which means when you do business with ANZ you can be sure of dealing with the same bank at both ends of the transaction . |
| 14 | Whether there is a percolation of water seawards in the beach material is another possibility , which does not seem to have received much attention , but it is unlikely that such a form of movement would be capable of dealing with the total volume of water involved . |
| 15 | In all , the search for visual relays working in parallel with the primary cortical visual mechanisms has been disappointing , even though there is good evidence that these areas must be capable of operating in the absence of the visual cortex . |
| 16 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 17 | Although the ban is sufficiently wide to be capable of applying to the officer who conducts the suspect to the parade , the mischief at which the provision is obviously aimed is the risk of contact between the identifying witness and the officer involved in the investigation . |
| 18 | Herons seem to be incapable of stepping over the deterrent . |
| 19 | Lane 's total might already be good enough to win selection but he said : ‘ I still think I need another 25,000 points to be certain of getting into the team so I 'm not counting chickens . ’ |
| 20 | After the award Mrs Green 's solicitor Raymond Donn , who is handling another 60 cases involving dead and injured servicemen , said people should not be frightened of claiming from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 21 | Having said that , I think we should be wary of falling into the trap of dictating to Morrissey what he should write about , or in what tone . |
| 22 | This means they must have been capable of crawling onto the land , like the sole survivors today of such creatures , called the dipnoans , a type of fish with lungs which live in Africa , Australia and South America . |
| 23 | However , some N. battus eggs deposited in the spring are capable of hatching in the autumn of the same year resulting in significant numbers of L3 on the pasture at this time . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm a great delegator , but it is important to delegate to those who are capable of carrying through the task and you must have a good report-back system . ’ |
| 25 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 26 | ‘ Only you are capable of going through the papers . |
| 27 | And there are other English players , like Steve McManaman , he believes are capable of playing in the Italian league . |
| 28 | They too are capable of evolving in the direction of becoming better enemies , in this case enemies of cheetahs . |
| 29 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 30 | Even if the protection of the rights of local fishing communities were capable of falling within the concept of public policy for the purposes of article 56(1) , it must be held that it follows from what has been stated above that the nationality , residence and domicile requirements are disproportionate to that objective . |