Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July last year he announced that ‘ we are prepared to set straight the brains of hundreds ’ in order to maintain stability . |
| 2 | Notice that in each of these examples we are careful to specify exactly the entities or particles to which the amount of substance refers . |
| 3 | Children also need to develop a specialised vocabulary so they are able to describe fully the features they find . |
| 4 | They can , however , still be distinguished from organized political formations such as parties which are directly engaged in the struggle for power in the sense of seeking to retain or capture the government of some political unit , by the fact that social movements act in a more diffuse way and if they are successful establish only the preconditions for changes of policy or regime by bringing into question the legitimacy of the existing political system ( in part or in whole ) , creating a different climate of opinion , and proposing alternatives . |
| 5 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |