Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank . |
| 2 | It is not possible to obtain data at a sufficiently disaggregated level to confirm this argument , but it is consistent with the data that are available . |
| 3 | Other depositors may be willing to deposit data for reasons of altruism . |
| 4 | Cable & Wireless rose 3p to 853p , Standard Chartered climbed 5p to 953p , while Midland Bank parent HSBC firmed 10p to 705p . |
| 5 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 6 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 7 | At the end of the Supreme Court 's current session on June 30 , therefore , it remained unclear how far the Court was willing to undo Roe v. Wade . |
| 8 | The UK is in principle willing to contribute aircraft for the enforcement task . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you are prepared to arrange collection of these goods at our premises , then I am prepared to knock £10 off the purchase price . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 've said all along that the key is managerial accountability , and until NIH is willing to punish people for their behaviour , nothing is going to change . ’ |
| 11 | We could all fly to Paris in perfect safety if we were prepared to pay £1,000 for a ticket , since we would then travel with the same cast-iron safety precautions as do heads of state . |
| 12 | Whilst these problems arise acutely for family carers , who are so often grievously isolated socially , they are also salient to care staff in institutions , especially when staffing levels are inadequate . |
| 13 | For example , if the current rate of interest were 20 per cent , no one would be willing to pay £100 for a bond that only yielded £10 per year . |
| 14 | 484 , W told A that he was willing to pay £100,000 for a certain farm . |
| 15 | Our trade expert , John Coates , hazards that the trade might only be willing to pay £12,500 in the hope of retailing it for £15,500 . |
| 16 | ( paras.2.6 , 4.2 ) I belong to the 40% who would be willing to pay £10 for a national permit , but I appreciate the problems of administration and enforcement , which probably means that Option A is the more practical alternative . |
| 17 | Comtek ‘ 92 can , it seems , still justifiably be billed as Russia 's main trade event : this year the show attracted over 70 hard currency-paying exhibitors , most of which were Western companies ; that so many companies are willing to pay $350 per square metre is testimony to the fact that the Russian market retains the interest of a significant portion of Western companies ; show organiser Crocus International says it invited 200,000 ‘ specialists ’ to the show , but in reality , Comtek has become a popular event in all senses of the word with most companies using the show as an opportunity for general exposure to the Russian market rather than as a means of generating many hard sales leads . |
| 18 | Less than a year later , Fuji seems more than willing to pay £100m for a minority share in the music arm which , with sales of £260m , represents much less than half of the Virgin empire . |
| 19 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 20 | He is prepared to offer £50,000 for the house , including the carpets and curtains . |
| 21 | I think we should all be willing to subscribe £5 for four issues of The Lifeboat … |
| 22 | While we do n't believe Mr Clarke is so fond of his junior minister he would be prepared to spend £20m of public money to help secure his re-election , the fact that this was an issue in other Tory marginal seats around the country no doubt influenced ministerial thought processes . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp is reportedly prepared to spend $5m at Comdex touting NT . |
| 24 | IT IS something of a public statement of Carter 's record company 's faith that they are prepared to spend £20,000 of unrecoupable readies on a major aerodynamic lig for the British press ( faith that is vindicated , one could argue , by the band 's confirmed Biggest Ever Hit ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ — Number Eight last week and rising ) . |
| 25 | However heaters only operate part of the time , so it is generous to say 1p per hour . |
| 26 | In recent years , public-spending cuts have made departments less willing to collect data in the form the 650 needs for the national accounts . |
| 27 | Although it has no permanent collections , its flexibility and room for manoeuvre could lead to new kinds of collaboration with institutions and individuals willing to lend works of art . |
| 28 | In the current economic climate banks will not normally lend more than 50% of the value of invoices and may sometimes only be prepared to lend 20% to 30% . |
| 29 | The head has a clear dilemma : it is possible to lead staff in developing a curriculum in quite different directions . |
| 30 | I am delighted to see people like Campling dealing with this subject with such caring . |