Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May own efforts at making custard , on what I think was called a Hydra Burner , may have been forgotten by those who subsequently had to eat the awful stuff , but I am not likely to forget the watery culinary disaster ! |
| 2 | I am not prepared to condemn the various newspapers which have written about this subject in a responsible way . |
| 3 | If I am not able to visit the Western Isles in the near future , I shall certainly act on his suggestion that we should send a team of Scottish Office officials and that will be arranged as soon as is reasonably practicable . |
| 4 | The common belief that resources are not available to implement the necessary changes is a major obstacle to the development of a new service delivery pattern . |
| 5 | But many companies are not prepared to allow the necessary time , despite the fact that without the language in some countries it is impossible to operate . |
| 6 | On the other hand they are not prepared to countenance the complete free rein of market forces , since the dangers of monopoly are well known . |
| 7 | There are certain categories of excepted students who , although they do not have a relevant connection with the UK and Islands , are not liable to pay the overseas rates of fee . |
| 8 | There are certain categories of ‘ excepted student ’ who , although they do not have a ‘ relevant connection ’ with the UK and Islands , are not liable to pay the overseas rates of fee . |
| 9 | Others may limit your way so that no matter how promising your situation or how creative you can be with money , you are not free to make the most of it . |
| 10 | So Lindsay had two stallions to take home , and as two stallions are not likely to share the close proximity of a horse trailer without taking each other apart , and probably the horse trailer too , a crowd gathered to watch in expectation ! |
| 11 | However the public is influenced by the wider allegations and Kitcher expresses concern that ‘ Those who have been beguiled into thinking that a high school course in evolutionary biology is the gateway to a life of violence and depravity are not likely to ponder the scientific credentials . ’ |
| 12 | But , beyond general references to market forces and social ideologies , they are not inclined to analyse the structural features of a society that lends credence to gene myths . |
| 13 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 14 | But although essential , these conditions are not sufficient to explain the full significance of such references . |
| 15 | Often students with babies or young children are not able to pay the full cost of a place at a crèche , so usually alternative funding is required . |
| 16 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ This equipment will prove very useful in testing premature babies we suspect might have hearing problems but who are not able to have the normal tests , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not afraid to ask the dumb questions on this show , ’ he proclaims . |
| 19 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 20 | We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again . |
| 21 | You see , sometimes you turn these over , it puts ideas into your head , you see you 're not supposed to see the next card . |
| 22 | Cos we 're not supposed to have the strong glues and it 's so much easier |
| 23 | First of all we 're not prepared to put the nine thousand back into the environment committee budget to er to save the cooperative development agency . |
| 24 | ‘ But let me make it clear we 're not prepared to train the current SAP . ’ |
| 25 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 26 | The police were not competent to enforce the civil provisions , which required that employers should do so . |
| 27 | The Air Staff were not slow to underline the Second World War 's lessons of air warfare : the need to win and to maintain air superiority by offensive air action . |
| 28 | In the engineering industry , for example , employers were unable completely to transform work relations towards deskilling and standardised mass production , mainly because they were not prepared to undertake the major capital investment which would have been required ( Zeitlin , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Politicians were not prepared to risk the fragile social consensus by allowing troubled firms to go to the wall . |
| 30 | Western , in particular American , statesmen were not prepared to forgo the strategic benefits derived from bases and military facilities in the Gulf region while the Soviet Union retained a military presence in the peripheral countries of South Yemen ( PDRY ) , Ethiopia and Afghanistan . |