Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 2 | Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end ! |
| 3 | Scientists at the Met Office are prepared to go along with the US plan . |
| 4 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 5 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 6 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 7 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 8 | Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given . |
| 9 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 10 | ‘ People on the estate are afraid to go out in the dark and even too afraid to open their doors . ’ |
| 11 | It would also seem that some proteins are free to move laterally within the membrane . |
| 12 | And it 's definitely a hands-on session — toddlers are free to leap about during the hour-long class . |
| 13 | That , as pressure groups , they are free to campaign openly for the changes , Mrs Whitehouse accepted . |
| 14 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 15 | There are very few people in whom a light trance can not be induced should they wish it and provided they are willing to co-operate fully with the therapist . |
| 16 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 17 | Lead pipes are easy to cut through with a hacksaw . |
| 18 | Peace and quiet are easy to find even in the height of the season , for the hotel is splendidly isolated , away from traffic and the merest hint of a crowd . |
| 19 | Exports are likely to rank only as a third objective . |
| 20 | At the same time it should be recognized that the Library 's exhibitions in their present form are likely to appeal only to a limited audience . |
| 21 | What percentage of candidates are likely to respond favourably to an approach ? |
| 22 | Would it not be a good idea if the airlines , when checking in passengers in those countries from which large quantities of drugs come to this country , were to hand each passenger a paper in his or her own language clearly explaining that if they bring drugs into the United Kingdom they are likely to be caught and , if they are caught , they are likely to go away for a very long time indeed ? |
| 23 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 24 | Certainly a number of them address current developments in Scottish education which are either affecting classroom teachers already or are likely to do so in the future . |
| 25 | Props Grant Wilson and Peter Wright have not yet had a chat about any possible switch , but are likely to do so before the game . |
| 26 | Garrimperos put out of business here , are likely to reappear elsewhere in the vastness of Amazonia . |
| 27 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 28 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 29 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
| 30 | The costs of such systems are extremely variable , but are likely to fall somewhere in the regions of : |