Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are right to reward the living ones with public lending rights . |
| 2 | Only newly-appointed and promoted staff are due to receive the new contracts which according to the Institute 's NATFHE chairman , Denis Clinton , has led to the problem of new staff being appointed but not given contracts . |
| 3 | Detectives are due to interview the five men later today . |
| 4 | The general conclusions are that to reduce the negative side-effects of intergroup competition , an organization would need to : |
| 5 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 6 | Following its purification it has been possible to study the biological properties of platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 8 | That is why I was especially pleased to hear that the Government are prepared to allocate the necessary funds . |
| 9 | Now it 's the oldest and hardest to find unless you are prepared to pay the ridiculous prices of independent fashion shops who 've searched the warehouses of middle America for anything that can be labelled ‘ old school ’ . |
| 10 | So , in my experience certainly down in the Sussex area , there 's , there 's great opportunity for people who have something worthwhile saying , who understand how to repackage what they 're saying in such a way that it will keep local radio audiences listening , and who are prepared to learn the minimum techniques and skills necessary to come across reasonably well . |
| 11 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 12 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 13 | Whether such a policy would be desirable is debatable , but certainly no society has been willing to divert the necessary resources to the police in order to come anywhere near such a policy . |
| 14 | At least since the early 1970s successive governments have expressed concern about the decline of our inner cities , but no government has been prepared to devote the massive resources which are now required to overcome decades of neglect . |
| 15 | It has not been prepared to consider the wider implications of the massive developments planned for Canary Wharf and the Royal Docks , which will have all kinds of consequences for London and the South East . |
| 16 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 17 | The rule changes will apply in competitions such as the NIE Primary Cup , but local associations are free to use the old rules if they wish . |
| 18 | They would know that they are free to evaluate the religious teachings of past generations and choose their own allegiance , and seek truth where they wish . |
| 19 | SHe appreciated Dr Parmedes ' art : it would have been easy to fix the physical changes , but he had possessed the patience and expertise to make those organs as responsive to stimulation as any natural ones . |
| 20 | It may be full of happiness for those who are fortunate to have the right conditions at play in their lives , but there is no doubt how stretching it can be to live in close proximity to your relations . |
| 21 | Comparisons at this level of guitar-building are difficult ; you 're welcome to argue the relative merits of Lowden , Martin , Santa Cruz , Taylor , old Fyldes and so on until you 're blue in the face , but the fact is that they 're all different guitars which excel in different areas . |
| 22 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 23 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 24 | However , many pieces are unworthy and ungrammatical , and are likely to join the dusty piles of discarded music in vestry cupboards , produced in great quantities in the nineteenth century because of the relative ease of finding publishers . |
| 25 | For women , money purchase schemes are problematic in that early contributions are likely to promote the best returns , yet younger women typically leave the labour force for several years and/or work part-time on motherhood . |
| 26 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 27 | Regionals tend to have natural franchises and are likely to get the best pickings of whatever expanded powers commercial banks may get out of the pending reform of the financial system , once Congress gets round to letting it happen . |
| 28 | The developing countries with a surplus agricultural production but an energy deficit , such as Brazil , Sudan , and Thailand , are likely to have the strongest incentives to develop large biomass energy programmes in order to reduce their dependence on imported energy . |
| 29 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , all the cells within a plant are likely to have the same genes , because only very recent mutations could divide them . |
| 30 | But after the sterling crisis , Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational , Mr Smith declared . |