Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because tin lodes are apt to end at any time , miners have to be continually ready to open up new levels or drives , and to extend new ones in a series of crazy changes in direction . |
| 2 | According to this system , Structure Plans are supposed to spawn District Plans : the District Plans are supposed to look at problems set out in the Structure Plan in more depth , and they are supposed to show how general planning policies might be worked out in practice . |
| 3 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 4 | Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June . |
| 5 | The essence of a country house park is that it is a large area of grazing , uninterrupted by hedges or fences , in which animals are free to roam at will . |
| 6 | Male mice are easiest to vasectomize at about 6 weeks of age before they become fat . |
| 7 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 8 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 9 | A group of five guests are due to arrive at 9.30 p.m . |
| 10 | As part of their broad-based agreements with the IBA and the MU , ILR stations are obliged to spend at least 3 per cent of their net advertising revenue on live musicians . |
| 11 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 12 | The banks agree not to sell bonds below the issue price until the arranger of the issue is satisfied that the bulk of the deal has been sold , after which , members of the group are free to sell at whatever prices they wish . |
| 13 | It is noteworthy that , whereas the demographic conditions of optimum childbearing can be largely , though not entirely , controlled , parents and individuals are unable to regulate at will the socio-economic and environmental circumstances that affect infant and child health and mortality and , by inference , optimum conditions of childbearing . |
| 14 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 15 | Here are some sentences in which two consonant sounds are identical to look at but sound slightly different because one is voiced ( the vocal cords vibrate ) and the other is unvoiced . |
| 16 | Although looseknit networks are difficult to handle at the operational level , at the level of theory they are likely to be important . |
| 17 | That is about as much as the East Europeans are likely to get at the moment . |
| 18 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 19 | 3,000 youngsters , approximately , will participate and audiences are likely to run at around 15,000 , most of whom will be young people . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | People are likely to create at least one piece of paper when making an agreement of sufficient complexity to incorporate expert determination . |
| 22 | Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively . |
| 23 | Most people are able to stay at home , perhaps with some extra support . |
| 24 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 25 | But the not-in-my-backyard arguments are hard to resist at local level . |
| 26 | Females are ready to breed at about seven years old . |
| 27 | Although precise categories of mental illness are difficult to arrive at , there is at least reasonable consensus about the meaning of the more inclusive terms , ‘ psychosis ’ and ‘ psychotic ’ . |
| 28 | European business students in Oxford are ready to push at the open door . |
| 29 | More orthodox scholars are inclined to scoff at such theories . |
| 30 | Carol McEvoy and her daughters Angela and Moira are due to speak at a press conference at Cleveland police 's headquarters in Middlesbrough . |