Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fear is that I am not likely to serve on the Standing Committee , although I volunteer for such duty if the opportunity be there . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I am not prepared to wait for the trial . |
| 3 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 4 | Of course , I agree that the livestock information centre offers an excellent service , but I am not able to agree with the rest of his item . |
| 5 | I am not able to comment on the Mirror Group pension fund as the Serious Fraud Office is examining it . |
| 6 | The hotel 's owners have made it clear they are not obliged to wait for the outcome of today 's inspection . |
| 7 | But we are not obliged to join in a single currency if we do not want to . |
| 8 | The situation of nurses in opted-out trusts is of particular concern , as trusts are not obliged to provide for the education and advancement of their staff . |
| 9 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 10 | Except in very calm and clear conditions flocks of birds are not easy to detect on the sea at any distance , and this , coupled with the shallowness of the water which may enable birds to feed well out to sea , probably results in many species being under recorded . |
| 11 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |
| 12 | An excellent air conditioning system , independently variable between the driver 's and passenger 's sides and fitted as standard , improves on an already good ventilation system , although its controls and high-tech graphic display are not easy to understand at a glance . |
| 13 | Israel , having bent on other matters , continues to insist that the future of the settlements and Jerusalem can not be discussed before the negotiations on the final status of the territories , which are not due to begin until the third year of self-government . |
| 14 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 15 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Dagenham said that the Government are not prepared to move to a property tax and he is absolutely right — we are not . |
| 17 | But I was so confident I would feel the solidness of either chub or root my reactions are not prepared to stop at the end of the strike . |
| 18 | There may be a good relationship between management and employees in most companies , but if people are not prepared to go down the road together they will not be allowed to go down the road at all . |
| 19 | In the name of modernisation and professionalism , Chinese architects and civil engineers are not prepared to accept for the towns any of those policies which have made their own rural housing programme a model for the Third World . |
| 20 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 21 | If you are not ready to deal with the problem of alcohol misuse if and when it occurs , one day you could be faced with a crisis . |
| 22 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 23 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 24 | Dahlias are not difficult to grow by the Porter rules . |
| 25 | Fathers may miss their teenagers but are not likely to grieve in the same way . |
| 26 | Recent court cases where the victims of rape have been seen by judges as contributing to the crime through their ‘ negligence ’ — for example hitch-hiking alone — are not likely to act as an encouragement for other victims to report such offences . |
| 27 | On the other hand , research has shown that in their dealings with families , EWOs , many of whom are not qualified social workers , are not likely to focus on the surrounding causes of truancy . |
| 28 | That is the position here if I come to the conclusion that those presently instructing Crossman Block are not entitled to act as the government of the Republic . |
| 29 | I therefore agree with Nolan J. and the majority of the Court of Appeal that Woolwich are not entitled to recover on the ground of duress . |
| 30 | What we 're saying here is er if you take an ex gratia payment you are not entitled to apply to the industrial tribunal . |