Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the intended outcome , it would be preferable to make it explicit . |
| 2 | It must be awful to have it all taken out of one 's hands and have nothing to do but wait — and for what ? |
| 3 | I am sure that , like myself , you will be sorry to leave our old home , scene of many moral victories and one or two actual ones over the years . |
| 4 | Mr McGregor says he 'll be sorry to leave his old job where he 's presided over the education reforms . |
| 5 | The visitors say the museum contains more than they thought and would be sorry to see it close . |
| 6 | They are all accurately reproduced in my book , but , of course , it will not be possible to exhibit them all . |
| 7 | It is worth getting an early estimate of what your pension will be , as it may be possible to improve your national insurance contribution record by making additional Class 3 voluntary contributions . |
| 8 | Even at an early stage in the enquiry it may well be possible to decide what actual classifications will be used for these data . |
| 9 | By viewing the entire drawing it may be possible to deduce its intended function . |
| 10 | with the baby it may just be possible to trick him two more times . " |
| 11 | It would not be possible to meet our environmental obligations by shutting down the nuclear industry . |
| 12 | It was also a hint that , while he wanted to retain ultimate control for as long as he lived , he foresaw a time when it might be possible to relinquish his personal hold on the administration of the system without it collapsing . |
| 13 | The carnivore will at least have to be mobile to catch its moving prey . |
| 14 | Given the option of seventeen papers in two sizes , six ink colours and twelve different styles of type-face , you might think it would be confusing to order your personal stationery by post . |
| 15 | We should assess the current and future requirements for GIS within RBGE , to determine whether or not it would be cost-effective to acquire our own expertise and hardware in-house , or contract out our GIS work . |
| 16 | We , as jurymen , must listen to one set of evidence only and be prepared to do our own mental cross-examination . |
| 17 | ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune . |
| 18 | After exchanging pleasantries , Sally asked : ‘ Ed , would you be prepared to give me some information about the Harley/Supersight contract . |
| 19 | To some extent this may be ameliorated by offering a cash alternative to shareholders , but the offeror must be prepared to defend its own financial condition and may even be compelled to issue a profit or dividend forecast in order to buttress its position . |
| 20 | Actors must be prepared to create their own work . |
| 21 | In such a situation members of congress may also be prepared to forego their usual concern with constitutional niceties in the interest of allowing the president to cope with an international or domestic crisis . |
| 22 | er actually who are all in front , mostly from Stanton which I represent , they have made their views known to me some years ago , er this might happen , erm I 'm very glad that you have responded now to their concerns as well as the concerns of the villages and , and this paper does mark significant erm success co-operation between a lot of people involved and for that reason I welcome it , I would ask if it becomes be prepared to make it six months instead of three months please . |
| 23 | And the mountains had better understand that and be prepared to alter their unpredictable ways . |
| 24 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 25 | Mozart also hoped that Count Seeau would be prepared to pay him 200 gulden per year . |
| 26 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 27 | They may be prepared to build their own checks into ordering referring unscheduled or non-conforming orders to unit management for specific authorisation before actioning . |
| 28 | But given the fact that the first GCSE examinations will have been held only in 1988 , and that it would therefore be unrealistic to recommend their Instant abandonment . |
| 29 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 30 | Of course , being members of the Tech-Green élite and therefore indispensable , he and his family were already on file for a place on Sky City One should he be willing to move them all up there . |