Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long-term aim is to develop a network of groups and individuals who are prepared to speak out for democratic rights . |
| 2 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 3 | We 're happiest driving around in beat-up old cars . ’ |
| 4 | A survey has revealed nine out of ten properties in the area are unfit to live in by modern standards . |
| 5 | Unlike the national services , which are likely to go out to competitive tender , these local and community services are expected to be awarded on the basis of their planned services and financial viability . |
| 6 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 7 | In Britain we are likely to come up against similar , if not identical , perverse incentives as the NHS reforms alter the way in which services are funded . |
| 8 | Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail , designed , presumably , to show just how very ‘ in ’ is Lady Colin Campbell . |
| 9 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 10 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 11 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Government are busy opting out of industrial policy . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Government are busy opting out of industrial policy . |
| 14 | Finally , a social fund was established in 1988 to help people with expenses which are difficult to pay out of regular income , such as maternity benefit , funeral benefit , crisis loans , and so on . |