Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda , a former teacher who has worked as a deaconess in Ayrshire , Edinburgh and Fort William and whose most recent church appointment was a centre warden at Iona Abbey , had been due to take over the lease of Key House , next to Falkland Palace , in July but the property became vacant sooner than expected . |
| 2 | White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness . |
| 3 | It has been possible to measure directly the forces that the cells generate during the formation of the neural tube . |
| 4 | Porter has undoubtedly had a considerable impact upon corporate strategic thinking , and in this brief discussion it has been possible to present only the barest outlines of his ideas developed in two sizable books . |
| 5 | One correspondent asserts that whilst there is no shortage of organists , there is a dearth of those who are prepared to take on the regular commitment of parish church music . |
| 6 | In July last year he announced that ‘ we are prepared to set straight the brains of hundreds ’ in order to maintain stability . |
| 7 | At the moment , Hillsborough chairman David Richards insists they will not let Hirst go , but it seems United are prepared to step up the pressure to test their nerve . |
| 8 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 9 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 10 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 11 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 12 | Parliament , he said , had been careful to avoid even the appearance of countenancing such a doctrine . |
| 13 | Notice that in each of these examples we are careful to specify exactly the entities or particles to which the amount of substance refers . |
| 14 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 15 | After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents . |
| 16 | Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company . |
| 17 | In the meantime , we are content to know how the thing functions . |
| 18 | To open the literature programme we are delighted to welcome back the internationally acclaimed poets James Berry and Miroslav Holub to read from work past and present . |
| 19 | We are delighted to hear how the bullocks are cared for on Mr and Mrs Taylor 's farm ( Points of View , 15 February ) . |
| 20 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 21 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 22 | ‘ For that pittance , you 're willing to sell out the most beloved son of the Romanian people , their greatest leader in history ? ! ’ |
| 23 | and , er well I did say er are you married ? , no , will you be having any children ? , definitely not , I said well unless you 're prepared to take on the responsibility |
| 24 | They 're unable to explain why the celebration turned to murder . |
| 25 | But for the time being , they 're happy to lap up the hospitality of their rescuers . |
| 26 | The councils say they 're ready to take on the job . |
| 27 | As it stands , few serious runners are likely to take up the challenge to turn it on . |
| 28 | Instead , countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies , are likely to scoop up the funds on offer . |
| 29 | SOUVENIRS : These are likely to top up the EC jackpot , though it 's hard to guess a figure . |
| 30 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |