Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes allowance for installing heaters in the gallery area which we are due to take back in hand at the end of September . |
| 2 | The length of notice to which business executives are due varies greatly from company to company . |
| 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 | Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 10 | The television , for many old people who are afraid to go out at night , an important link with the outside world and the sources of ent entertainment . |
| 11 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 12 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 13 | In a society where many women are afraid to walk alone at night does this increase in reporting increase women 's fear still further ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The project examines this case in detail and considers methods for improving the accuracy of the approximation which are easy to carry out in practice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 're supposed to come on to parade with clean boots , Jones ! ( condition 3 ) |
| 19 | ‘ Whenever you 're ready to go up into town . |
| 20 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 21 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If they obtain a strong set of warranties from the vendor , then they are likely to seek less from management . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Answer guide : Machine operators ' wages and cost of raw materials as these are the only ones which are likely to vary directly with production . |
| 30 | Do n't necessarily accept the lowest quotation : you are likely to pay more for professionalism and thoroughness . |