Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’ |
| 2 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 3 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 4 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 5 | I am delighted to welcome you to the University of Ulster . |
| 6 | Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read . |
| 7 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 8 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 9 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’ |
| 11 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 12 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 13 | And they 're glad to share it with the visitors : |
| 14 | They 're apt to incapacitate us in the present if we do n't vigilantly sweep them away . ’ |
| 15 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 16 | " I expect they 're anxious to chair me around the hall , " thought the Collector triumphantly . |
| 17 | They 're liable to confiscate it for the further entertainment of customs officers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you want a power-sharing executive , you are likely to blow it with the council , I said . |
| 19 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 20 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 21 | If used carefully and correctly , condoms are likely to provide you with an effective barrier against HIV infection during penetrative sex ( they are 98% reliable ) . |
| 22 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 23 | I am privileged to count you as a dear friend . |
| 24 | The hairs are long to protect it against the bitter alpine nights . |
| 25 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 26 | Regulation is an option , but creates additional problems of its own , which are unlikely to commend it to the authorities except in exceptional circumstances ( e.g. as part of a privatization programme involving natural monopolies ) . |
| 27 | GERARD Depardieu 's latest film , Tous Les Matins Du Monde , tries very hard to be a very worthy movie but unfortunately I am unable to recommend it as an entertaining evening at the cinema . |
| 28 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 29 | If confirmed transport is cancelled , changed or delayed by more than six hours or hotel is changed or if we are unable to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking due to war , threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , disaster , fire , flood ( including fire or flood in hotels ) or bad weather we can not accept liability or responsibility and compensation is not payable but provided the holiday has not begun we will offer alternative travel routing or alternative travel date or alternative hotel and advise additional cost if any or you may elect to cancel and we will offer a full refund of monies paid . |
| 30 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |