Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 3 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 4 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 5 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 6 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 7 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 8 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 9 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 10 | But because , in terms of our Christian moral code , this is a shameful matter we are inclined to push it to one side and to assume that kinship is the equivalent of " blood relationship " which implies , or should imply , biological connection . |