Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 2 | Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own . |
| 3 | On p 475 the results of the fellowship 's survey of mental hospital closures in England show that 45 hospitals are due to close by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | So not a very successful project in terms of getting people out into the community but people are due to move at the end of this calendar year and I have no doubt that the project will be very successful thereafter . |
| 5 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 6 | Regulars from several Hartlepool pubs are due to gather in the Park Hotel today for a 12-hour charity quiz to raise money for the Telethon appeal . |
| 7 | The UK office will also support the Benelux countries — French and Scandinavian offices are due to open in the Autumn . |
| 8 | More than 600 Warriors are already in service and by 1994 a total of 1,053 are due to roll off the production lines . |
| 9 | Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June . |
| 10 | The effect of day length on behaviour is mediated hormonally ; the birds are prepared to migrate in the autumn by declining production of sex hormones at the end of the breeding season ; they do not migrate if injected with sex hormones . |
| 11 | If tens of thousands of people are prepared to take to the streets and to camp outside obscure air-force bases for months on end , what will they do when cruise becomes a reality ? |
| 12 | No , it even says in here , it says look , there well may be groups of supporters in different categories who 'd like to arrange seats together , unfortunately not be able to do this unless you are prepared to wait until the end of the main selling period |
| 13 | Although he was convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Japanese intelligence organizations were behind the Vietminh and their revolt , he also said that throughout their handling of the situation the French appeared to lack every vestige of imagination but , ‘ provided the French are prepared to deal with the Annamites as human beings and not as chattels for exploitation as in the past , there is every reason to believe that the leading Annamites will not only listen to them , but will help them … ’ |
| 14 | They are prepared to vote against the government , even at the cost of a damaging row just before an election . |
| 15 | Most of the children want the railway and are prepared to help with the survey , but a few want things to remain as they are , and they want to organise resistance to the coming of the railway . |
| 16 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 17 | It is refreshingly easy to overcome initial fears , however , if you are prepared to enter into the debate , and not allow yourself to take comments or criticisms personally when a student peers at you agog for carrying out what they see as an archaic approach . |
| 18 | The amount of money that people are prepared to pay for the meal plus the overheads and the establishment . |
| 19 | Research studies which may seem quite practical to university people may seem very far removed from reality to practitioners , and research workers who are prepared to learn from the practitioners can often modify their research plans and greatly improve them . |
| 20 | Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public . |
| 21 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 22 | ‘ We are prepared to work with the police and to provide the information needed to bring the perpetrators of attacks to justice , ’ he says , adding that he would like to see Mr McLean in the hope of building a relationship . |
| 23 | Grover : ‘ We are prepared to work with the police ’ OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 24 | They are free to evolve at the mutation rate . |
| 25 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 26 | Certainly , ultimate borrowers and lenders are free to switch as the advantage of doing so presents itself . |
| 27 | Surely where the boundaries are around rural settlements , whether or not there are boundaries around rural settlements , does n't flow from E two but flows from decisions that district councils are free to make at the moment . |
| 28 | We can at last give the Proof of Theorem 1.4.4 Let S denote the set of all positive integers of the form ma + nb where m , n are free to range over the whole of Z. Then clearly at least one of a , -a , b , -b belong to S. [ Why ? ] |
| 29 | Visitors are free to wander through the woods and across the extensive lawns to admire the lily pond , the fountain and the rose gardens . |
| 30 | ‘ If any of you have any problems , at any time , you know you are free to speak to the officers in charge of your landing or to me personally , ’ Nicholson continued . |