Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company . |
| 2 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 3 | By formulating such objectives , ward staff are able to define precisely the general and the specific care required by the patients of their particular specialty . |
| 4 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 5 | ‘ We need to learn how to break through this ‘ barrier of inhibition ’ before we are ready to face fully the challenge of AIDS . ’ |
| 6 | The ability of enterprises to transfer investment from countries in which the regulatory environment threatens to become uncongenial , and the damage to international competitiveness that will result if domestic industry is subject to a more stringent regulatory regime than rivals abroad , are liable to circumscribe severely the capacity of national governments to establish an appropriate control framework . |
| 7 | Our comrades from South Africa are eager to join once the moving gets going . |
| 8 | Clearly if the substitutes are entitled to enter then the condition on the manumission can never be satisfied . |