Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The length of notice to which business executives are due varies greatly from company to company . |
| 2 | They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions . |
| 3 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 4 | Add it all together and — unless they are prepared to go deeper into debt — the Tories are hoping to raise anything up to £42m . |
| 5 | Peter 's first priority has been to build the commercial side of the business , where image-conscious companies are prepared to spend heavily on landscaping and planting . |
| 6 | Clergy wives have to battle alone with parish disapproval , and only the strongest-minded , and those who are prepared to verge even on defiance , survive the financial problems and the misery of lack of friendship . |
| 7 | Will he therefore redouble his efforts to promote NHS trusts while ignoring the ill-founded criticism of Opposition Members , who are prepared to argue more for party dogma than for patient care ? |
| 8 | In a society where many women are afraid to walk alone at night does this increase in reporting increase women 's fear still further ? |
| 9 | In 1981 Tony struck out on his own , repairing and making guitars in the North East , and since his move westward to Wales six years ago , he 's been free to concentrate more on building . |
| 10 | But two days of sustained air attacks on Croatian positions , and artillery fire near Sarajevo , indicate that elements within the army are willing to fight openly in support of Serbs , who were vehemently opposed to independence for Bosnia . |
| 11 | But I just did n't want to go , it was to my grandmother and old John they used to say , Oh no , you do n't want to school , you 're supposed to stay here at home . |
| 12 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 13 | this is something though , well they 're all finished now at Christmas . |
| 14 | Building societies ' responses to the consultation on the 1992 regulations tend to favour that situation , and so the two are likely to move forward in parallel for the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 16 | Firstly , the curvatures are likely to depend linearly on mass ; otherwise a single mass would produce a different effect from that produced by two separate masses brought into contact . |
| 17 | If they obtain a strong set of warranties from the vendor , then they are likely to seek less from management . |
| 18 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 19 | Answer guide : Machine operators ' wages and cost of raw materials as these are the only ones which are likely to vary directly with production . |
| 20 | Do n't necessarily accept the lowest quotation : you are likely to pay more for professionalism and thoroughness . |
| 21 | Under the Rooker-Wise-Lawson Amendment these are supposed to rise annually in line with inflation to prevent the automatic advance of taxpayers into higher tax bands . |
| 22 | Eventually , Sabine had been glad to escape altogether to university , where she 'd read Modern Languages . |
| 23 | When they are all put together under topic headings the full interview schedule will then tell us how long the interview is likely to take and if it is much too long some pruning can be undertaken at once . |
| 24 | This pattern suggests that individual media institutions are unlikely to survive either in isolation or as independent ( national ) trading units . |
| 25 | The garage benefits even further since faults from defective service are unlikely to occur immediately after collection of a vehicle . |
| 26 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 27 | Opinion polls have revealed that , while Americans are reluctant to pay more for energy , they dearly want to be less reliant on imports from the Gulf . |
| 28 | There are also some patients who make wonderful subjects for hypnotic therapy but who are unable to relax sufficiently for regression . |
| 29 | No-one would maintain , however , that those of us who are unable to contribute economically to society through no fault of our own , should be denied our rights to live in society and derive its benefits . |
| 30 | So this type of mortgage is most suited to individuals who are able to plan ahead with confidence . |