Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these parents may also wish , through adoption , to protect children against the social order , but they are ‘ real ’ parents in that they are prepared to go beyond their own concerns and hold the child 's interests as their priority . |
| 2 | Your decision here will obviously depend to some extent on whether you already have an aircraft radio and just how much you are prepared to spend on your first model . |
| 3 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 4 | Members are free to work on their own chosen subject if they desire . |
| 5 | Local managers are likely to cling to their manual systems Of course , there is another side to the coin in comparing manual and computerised systems . |
| 6 | Young openers Matthew Hayden and Michael Slater have been in sparkling form but the tourists are likely to start with their tried and trusted one-day partnership of Mark Taylor and Mark Waugh . |
| 7 | Just as they defended the school friends we disapproved of , so they are likely to stick to their own choice of girl or boyfriend . |
| 8 | Macaulay , like Baptist Noel earlier in the meeting , consciously took upon himself the mantle of a new generation ‘ who , although they have not contributed to your past success , are ambitious to participate in your future labours … the good cause shall not therefore want fresh champions , nor , if it must be so , fresh martyrs ’ . |
| 9 | Our idea of gold is simply an idea of some of its observable properties , which are supposed to flow from its real essence . |
| 10 | You are welcome to browse in our main showroom , and select any number of designs from our own ‘ PRINT TO ORDER ’ fabrics and silks , and from other major manufacturers . |
| 11 | Whatever the outcome , banks are sure to suffer from their ill-judged business with Federconsorzi . |
| 12 | What we know is that simple interventions in a single area — like a school health education programme — are unlikely to work on their own . |
| 13 | Destroy them and we will impoverish future generations simply because we are unable to live within our environmental means . ’ |
| 14 | Then there are those we can all remember from our own schooldays who just ca n't teach at all , though we are unable to recall from our own experience any example of the stratagem reported by one of our informants . |
| 15 | Combined with changes introduced earlier in the decade , the 1986 Social Security Act has worked to increase the financial responsibilities of parents on benefit and reduce their access to additional sources of financial support for expenses that they are unable to meet from their regular benefit . |
| 16 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 17 | Additional allowances that can be paid include a constant attendance allowance , exceptionally severe disablement allowance , and reduced earnings supplement , which is paid to those who are unable to work in their normal occupation as a result of industrial accident or disease , and can be claimed either in addition to or separate from disablement benefit , payable where appropriate . |
| 18 | In practice however it is possible to have a permanent majority which can deny the protest votes of minorities who are unable to bring about their desired changes . |
| 19 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 20 | Most sufferers are able to return to their own homes and employment after the completion of four or five weeks of residential treatment . |
| 21 | And the more these artists are able to work on their own , or become very powerful , then the more precious and ungrown-up they tend to become . |
| 22 | Such beliefs are able to stand on their own feet , without support from others . |
| 23 | They are able to identify from their own records those types who are the loyal customers — where average order value is highest , where bad debt is lowest , and where responsiveness to mailshots is highest . |
| 24 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 25 | Although I demonstrated the advantages of the ‘ hot mike ’ system to ICAO and to the US National Transportation Safety Board in 1979 , the resistance to retrospective modifications ( because of the cost involved ) which the US airlines are able to organise through their congressional lobbying activities has prevented its introduction in the USA . |
| 26 | Many non-owners are happy to go to their local riding school for their weekly lesson or hack and never aspire to anything greater . |
| 27 | While they are happy to predate on anything small enough to swallow — playing havoc with Molly fry for instance — they are not like the Bumble Bee Gobies , ( and the less-well-known Slim Mudskippers Parapocryptes serperaster which we also keep ) which will accept only frozen or live foods . |
| 28 | The Social Fund — You may also be able to get a loan or a grant from the social fund to help you with expenses which are difficult to meet from your regular income . |
| 29 | Since 1977 , when I first published what is still the only British book on the subject ( Modern First Editions : Their Value to Collectors ) , collectors have become more and more attracted to contemporary writers ; in this latest edition I list 281 twentieth century authors in whom there is currently the most interest , 115 of whom are alive and well and regularly producing new offerings which the hopelessly dedicated completists are obliged to add to their earlier rarities . |
| 30 | Detectives have launched a massive manhunt and are anxious to speak to her on-off boyfriend David Ashworth . |