Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 2 | I am sorry to hear about the lavatories . |
| 3 | If tens of thousands of people are prepared to take to the streets and to camp outside obscure air-force bases for months on end , what will they do when cruise becomes a reality ? |
| 4 | Although he was convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Japanese intelligence organizations were behind the Vietminh and their revolt , he also said that throughout their handling of the situation the French appeared to lack every vestige of imagination but , ‘ provided the French are prepared to deal with the Annamites as human beings and not as chattels for exploitation as in the past , there is every reason to believe that the leading Annamites will not only listen to them , but will help them … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 6 | Research studies which may seem quite practical to university people may seem very far removed from reality to practitioners , and research workers who are prepared to learn from the practitioners can often modify their research plans and greatly improve them . |
| 7 | ‘ We are prepared to work with the police and to provide the information needed to bring the perpetrators of attacks to justice , ’ he says , adding that he would like to see Mr McLean in the hope of building a relationship . |
| 8 | Grover : ‘ We are prepared to work with the police ’ OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 9 | Visitors are free to wander through the woods and across the extensive lawns to admire the lily pond , the fountain and the rose gardens . |
| 10 | ‘ If any of you have any problems , at any time , you know you are free to speak to the officers in charge of your landing or to me personally , ’ Nicholson continued . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , if you are willing to clamber over the obstacles , you will be rewarded by a memorable collection of case histories which makes When Illness Strikes the Leader an entertaining and compelling read . |
| 12 | If necessary , I am content to rely on the propositions advanced by Elliott and Williams , although the words ‘ useless ’ and ‘ burden ’ are not very helpful . |
| 13 | Madam Speaker I wonder if the minister is aware that in the economically declining fishing port of Brixham in South Devon the second largest fishing port in the West Country that the employment service agency want to build a new building on a prime site in the centre of Brixham in order to put both the payout office and the job creation office in the same building and they 're prepared to pay over the odds with government money and push out private enterprise who want to build that site . |
| 14 | No , they 're supposed to stop before the lights . |
| 15 | They 're able to share in the joys , they consider the great things that 's happened to them . |
| 16 | You 'll have no seed left before you 're able to get to the shops to buy more . |
| 17 | Now they 're honour-bound to watch over the crops and the livestock and ward off ghosts and evil forces . |
| 18 | And the crop-marks that show dark instead of pale are likely to lie along the lines where timber walls stood , prior to the stone . ) |
| 19 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , has confirmed to The Scotsman that the costs are likely to vary from the originals . |
| 20 | In fact , it is fairly obvious what you are supposed to do with the ones here . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure what Mr and Mrs Bloggs are supposed to gain from the pages of ticked sums and the often half finished pieces of writing . |
| 22 | Details are hard to elicit from the texts , since in AD 529 it was abolished by Justinian , who later brusquely referred to it as a tenebrosissimus error . |
| 23 | However , this should not hide the fact that many , especially urban , councils have capital resources that are inadequate to deal with the problems that face them . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , all these models are inadequate to cope with the realities of business enterprises as experienced by workers . |
| 25 | It also noted , however , that the facilities presently available are inadequate to provide for the patients of all ages who could benefit from these procedures . |
| 26 | If you are flying to the east and crossing only one or two time zones or flying to the west and crossing three or less time zones , you are unlikely to suffer from the effects of jet-lag . |
| 27 | If we do not try to grasp the relations between popular music discourses and the material musical practices to which they refer , and at the same time the necessary distinctness of level between these , we are unlikely to break through the structures of power which , as Foucault makes clear , discursive authority erects . |
| 28 | Such symptoms are far less likely to trouble you if you gradually reduce your intake until you are able to go without the substances altogether . |
| 29 | In a constantly changing economic environment we are able to draw on the strengths of our parent companies — The Royal Bank of Scotland and Scottish Equitable — and create effective and flexible ways to meet the needs of people like you . |
| 30 | The emergence of individuals who are more aware of their situation , and the problems they face , but are able to cope with the pressures , strains and disappointments that life entails . |