Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 2 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 3 | Easy to follow instructions on how to use this service are given by ringing the above number . |
| 4 | B types are broken on mixing the two components . |
| 5 | Above all , we are committed to providing the best service in the business . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have worked closely with Technology on a number of service projects and I know that they are committed to providing the best possible service , ’ said John . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , sponsors of commissioned works are committed to accepting the finished product , even if the composer fails to produce exactly what was envisaged or specified . |
| 8 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 9 | At The Shaker Shop , Tim Lamb and Liz Shirley are committed to presenting the essential simplicity of authentic Shaker style . |
| 10 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 11 | We are committed to applying the best practicable health and safety standards in our business to protect our employees , contractors , visitors , customers , shareholders and the community . |
| 12 | The departments which teach modern European languages — French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Russian , Scandinavian , Spanish , Celtic — are committed to preserving the best features of traditional courses of language study so that students may acquire competence and skill in the written and spoken language as well as an extensive knowledge of the literature and civilisation of the countries concerned . |
| 13 | In the first and last resort , the law , and therefore all courts and judges , are committed to upholding the prevailing social , economic and political order and they will not countenance activities that threaten that order . |
| 14 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 15 | Once our parents are dead , we are catapulted into becoming the older generation ourselves . |
| 16 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 17 | The room numbers are ascertained by using the alphabetical guest list . |
| 18 | They are selected by typing the corresponding integer and RETURN . |
| 19 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 20 | On each option date employees will be notified , by circulation and notice board , of the price at which options are available ; applications are made by completing the appropriate form which is incorporated in the Rules of the Scheme available from the Personnel Manager . |
| 21 | We 're talking about rescinding the entire brief . ’ |
| 22 | But if you 're thinking of doing the same , make sure you get a recording that can be sung-along with and not one of those dragged out funereal dirge versions . |
| 23 | Incidentally erm next Friday no the Friday after , so Friday the eleventh anyway , we 're gon na set the whole t erm Hall out for the banquet a day early so that people can come and see it . |
| 24 | And we 're going to discuss er the likes of and and myself and Stuart er how we 're gon na allocate the national accounts and who 's gon na do what and just clarify |
| 25 | Oh my goodness John I do n't know who you 're gon na interview the national treasury |
| 26 | I least we know we 're gon na clear the first lot in a week then now do n't we . |
| 27 | You 're gon na make the actual statistics worse okay yeah you can do that but it 's the vocabulary that 's not strong enough |
| 28 | Between six people and they 're gon na get the same that 's all a sixth means . |
| 29 | Shuffle then cos we 're gon na get the same again . |
| 30 | So we 're gon na get the original magazine or have you already got it ? |