Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Men with big company cars , big mortgages , big family commitments are prepared to risk all that in order to have control of their own destiny , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The BBC said : ‘ Vic and Bob 's inimitable brand of humour is very much at the cutting edge of contemporary comedy and I am delighted to welcome two such original talents to BBC 2 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think the idea is we 're supposed to want all those things and work hard to get them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think you 're likely to get much more of a response , ’ said Jill . |
| 5 | We have er one thousand two hundred lawyers in our firm round the world er continuing to develop their skills , continuing to deal with clients on a daily basis to make sure they 're able to service those those demands . |
| 6 | The government , therefore , aims to avoid circumstances that are likely to unite all these opposition forces against it , and here it is helped by the practicalities of the situation . |
| 7 | If the former outbalances it , they are likely to approach one another . |
| 8 | The threat came from the ANC 's spokesman on sport , Steve Tshwete , who said his organisation are unlikely to sanction any more overseas trips . |
| 9 | People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution . |
| 10 | Local authorities in aggregate may suffer a fiscal imbalance inasmuch as they are unable to finance all those expenditure programmes that are considered desirable . |
| 11 | During a four-day visit to Korea , Charles and Diana are dubbed ‘ The Glums ’ , with reports that they are unable to bear one another 's company . |
| 12 | Now we are able to employ 16,000 more doctors and dentists than in the late '70s , and no less than 60,000 more nurses . |
| 13 | I myself feel sure that you are full of goodness , that you have all knowledge and that you are able to teach one another . |
| 14 | Their work in the 1980s led to the creation of the Scottish Academic Libraries Bibliographic Information Network ( SALBIN ) , developed by Edinburgh University Library on behalf of the Group : nine of the eleven research libraries , as members of the Joint Academic Network ( JANET ) , are able to consult one another 's collections via the network , and the two remaining libraries will also be linked up shortly ; and work is proceeding on planning an online file of current serials in Scottish libraries , and a distributed directory of library resources in the eleven libraries , which will be available over JANET . |
| 15 | It is about ways of organising learning activities so that children expect and are able to help one another , to share ideas , to comment constructively upon one another 's work , to recognise and use one another 's resources in ways which support and enhance learning . |
| 16 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |
| 17 | Er I 'm sorry to throw all those at you very quickly , but they are er obviously five minutes left and |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry to dump all this on you , Chris , but there was no one else I could turn to . |
| 19 | I 'm happy to commend all these names to the meeting and to second the resolution . |
| 20 | ’ We accept entirely the findings and recommendations of the report and have already implemented whatever changes are necessary to make sure this does n't happen again . ’ |
| 21 | I am ready to face all that . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I am entitled to take all these circumstances into account in attempting to arrive at a just decision concerning injunctive relief . |
| 23 | While the opening exchanges between the clerk and the girl are very cursory , they are sufficient to introduce all that is necessary for an audience to know : the girl is a " " damishel " " ( I. 1 ) , the interlocutor a man ( " " sir " " , I. 2 ) , and the girl is vulnerable as she is alone : ( " Where is your master , where is your mistress ? " |
| 24 | We are entitled to recover any such monies from your salary . |
| 25 | In addition to any disciplinary action , if you have deliberately defrauded the ES or colluded with someone else to defraud the ES , we may require you to repay the amount lost and we are entitled to deduct any such amounts from your salary . |