Example sentences of "and be [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true citizen must be ‘ able to understand the interests of the community , must be able to subordinate his own will to the general will , must feel his responsibility to the community and be prepared to serve it by voting , working , or ( if need be ) fighting ’ . |
| 2 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 3 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 4 | Keep receipts for things you buy abroad and be prepared to show them to customs . |
| 5 | Local education and information campaigns , though well-meaning , have proved of dubious value in prevention terms , although it is sensible to educate local youth workers , school teachers , probation officers and the primary care team to recognize the problem and be able to tackle it in an informed way . |
| 6 | It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it . |
| 7 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 8 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 9 | This would require companies to be able to merge across frontiers and be able to organize themselves on a Europe-wide basis without discrimination . |
| 10 | They 're able to hold on to that for the duration of the talk and be able to understand them as concepts and therefore it helps to put over the ideas . |
| 11 | In other cases a relative or foster carer may apply for custody after a shorter period and you will be informed of this action and be able to contest it in court if you wish . |
| 12 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 13 | Get a cloth out of my pack , and be ready to press it to the wound as soon as the bolt comes clear . ’ |
| 14 | TWO ADVENTUROUS LEGIONNAIRES who are now in Africa , bored stiff — French ( 20 ) and American ( 23 ) — seek women ( 18-25 ) who will write to us and be ready to receive us on our return to Europe for good parties and fast times . |