Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 2 | In any event , say the Pakistanis , none of the Arab countries except for Egypt is prepared to take its awkward citizens back . |
| 3 | It is also useful if someone is prepared to read your rough versions . |
| 4 | The life preparation course , in its present form , is unlikely to meet their specific needs , but the curricular content could serve as a starting point for designing new provision which would . |
| 5 | However , it is important to keep your fellow campaigners in other groups informed of what you are doing as the likelihood is that they will read your releases and help circulate them further . |
| 6 | It is important to identify your personal reasons for wanting to be slimmer and feel healthier . |
| 7 | Since the legal rules about the control of water pollution are expressed through the discretion of field officers it is important to understand their working definitions of pollution in terms of the kinds of events , activities , or social settings which could give rise to action on their part , whatever its ultimate conclusion . |
| 8 | The County Council , having been presented with the Channel Tunnel as a fait accompli , is concerned to maximise its potential benefits by directing associated commercial development to those areas which will benefit most . |
| 9 | It is because he is concerned only with a private set of notes that he is able to enrich his initial comments in this way . |
| 10 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
| 11 | So he is happy to see his Swedish brothers here ? |
| 12 | With First National an optional insurance scheme is available to cover your monthly repayments if you are unable to work owing to accident , sickness or redundancy . |
| 13 | A With First National an optional insurance scheme is available to cover your monthly repayments if you are unable to work owing to accident , sickness or redundancy . |
| 14 | This sort of ‘ fanatical ’ asceticism is currently not well received in intellectual theological circles , although popular piety is slower to abandon its old allegiances . |
| 15 | But it is difficult to equate their negative feelings about politics in China with the desire to go abroad . |
| 16 | However , during the 1680s and 1690s it is difficult to distinguish his parliamentary activities from those of his younger but politically more significant cousin , Sir John Lowther of Lowther , first Viscount Lonsdale [ q.v . ] , |
| 17 | Staff from the borough council 's housing department have held meetings with a national building society which is anxious to use its empty properties to house homeless families . |
| 18 | The Legal Aid Board will take as much money as is necessary to repay your legal costs . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is nice to think our old friends in New Zealand would help us out . |
| 20 | First , the firm is eager to expand its data-transmission services , which at present make up just 5% of total sales ; by 2000 it hopes that will have risen to around 20% . |
| 21 | While States may by treaty opt out of a rule of customary international law inter se , they can not do so with respect to a third party which is entitled to have its customary rights observed . |
| 22 | According to the Household Mortgage Corporation , you have to make a simple declaration that your income is sufficient to meet your monthly payments , using the same income multipliers as other borrowers . |
| 23 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 24 | ‘ There follow two general handling trips to accustom the pilot to the feel of the aircraft and he is ready to start his operational exercises . |