Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've said I 'd be prepared to work for between two and three days a week |
| 2 | That the world is not divided into 2 classes of people — one who run private care for nasty reasons — and another group who work in the statutory service for all the good reasons , and that what we have to do is be prepared to step outside of those kinds of labelling and look at what we are seeing , look at the needs of the people we are trying to help make provision for and see what best can be done out of the resources available . |
| 3 | An earnout provides a mechanism for vendors to receive some of the benefit of future profit growth which , owing to past performance of the target , a purchaser may not be prepared to pay for at completion . |
| 4 | I suppose we thought , to our shame , that commuter land would be hard to live with after the beauty and breadth of Bristol . |
| 5 | Cash may be hard to come by from firms but time involvement may be much more forthcoming . |
| 6 | Explicitness of meaning , in other words , may be better thought of as a goal rather than an achievement . |
| 7 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 8 | will establish what children should normally be expected to know , understand and be able to do at around the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 and will enable each child to be measured against established national standards . |
| 9 | And we 're also going to set up our own site , which we 'll be able to carry on on a daily basis throughout the year , so obviously the schools ca n't do it during the holidays . |
| 10 | Almost immediately I ran across the news that the French telephone monopoly , PTT , is well on the way with a scheme for putting all the phone numbers in France into a computer that a subscriber will be able to communicate with from a terminal that is connected to his instrument . |
| 11 | Although this precise example may not be directly relevant to many of us , we should all be able to identify with at least some of its elements 1 . |
| 12 | We have a budget — I think it 's about a million pounds in total on this — it 's a hundred thousand , so it 's one in ten over any one year less that we 'll be able to care for in this way . |
| 13 | For example , Private Acts of Parliament are treated as legislation even though they may regulate the conduct of only a single individual ; on the other hand , an ‘ administrative order ’ affecting a large number of people may be difficult to distinguish from as legislative act . |
| 14 | This provides a benchmark for evaluating natural monopoly industries , in the same way that perfect competition provides a benchmark — something that it would be desirable to work towards as a policy goal . |