Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 3 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 4 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 5 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 6 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 7 | Just as it has been possible to insert beneficial genes into crop plants , there is scope for eliminating , replacing or masking certain genes which have a deleterious effect on crop production . |
| 8 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 9 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 10 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 11 | The government are prepared to consider alternative arrangements for controlling the budget of the C & AG , but the implications for the staff of the E & AD would need to be considered . |
| 12 | " Our preference is to resolve the [ Gulf ] crisis peacefully , " but " if the current steps fail to end it , we are prepared to consider additional ones consistent with the UN charter . " |
| 13 | The degree to which characters in dramatic texts are prepared to interrupt other speakers is an important indication of their power and confidence in a given speech situation . |
| 14 | Shane may now be shorn of groping groupies and desperate sports hacks who ring him at five o'clock in the morning , but there 's certainly no shortage of England batsmen who are prepared to play dazzled rabbits to his Mack truck headlights . |
| 15 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 16 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 17 | The fact , as one commentator has pointed out , that bidders are prepared to pay substantial premiums over the existing stock market valuation of a company in order to gain control indicates that despite the presence of the take-over threat bidders still believe that there is considerable scope for efficiency gains . |
| 18 | There are obvious PR advantages in cooperating with such projects when approached , sometimes financial benefits can be achieved as well , where companies are prepared to pay substantial sums for the use of our facilities for filming . |
| 19 | Fans are prepared to pay inflated prices for the Mugler style . |
| 20 | The top brands , such as Mistral , benefit from such thinking since some people are prepared to pay high prices to ‘ buy ’ confidence in their equipment . |
| 21 | But cancer may take decades to develop , and we know that if we are prepared to make certain changes in how we live , we can help to protect ourselves . |
| 22 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 23 | President Lennart Johansson said last night they are prepared to discuss innovative plans from a group of Europe 's wealthiest clubs , but added : ‘ I can not see the benefit of a league which makes the already rich richer , and the other ones poorer . ’ |
| 24 | In return for media coverage and the ‘ clean ’ image of sport , sponsors are prepared to provide big injections of cash . |
| 25 | Many readers possess their own forms of transport and are prepared to travel reasonable distances within the authority when requiring material urgently . |
| 26 | In the meantime the discussion will largely remain within the shareholder-centred conception of business enterprise , and during the course of the next seven chapters it will be considered whether in practice the mechanisms of shareholder control , particularly against a background of widely dispersed holdings , are adequate to promote satisfactory levels of corporate efficiency . |
| 27 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 28 | This is not , of course , to say that workers would have been prepared to face long-term falls in real earnings . |
| 29 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 30 | This graph demonstrates that , providing that we are careful to establish safe intervals for the various parameters , we can find a normalised measure which is remarkably linear with respect to true area . |