Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the King said , ‘ I am sorry to say as much before your lady , but it was by your wish that she stayed . |
| 2 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 3 | Why is it that governments are so concerned about high inflation rates that they are prepared to put so much effort into its control and even tolerate a rise in unemployment ? |
| 4 | They say they are prepared to extinguish only those rights of common — attached to local property and covering things like grazing cattle and collecting firewood — which apply to land on which hangars , missile shelters , nuclear bomb stores and other military installations have already been built . |
| 5 | On the contrary , Labour Members are prepared to place ever more burdens on British business , which would only destroy jobs . |
| 6 | Few candidates , though , are prepared to run too many risks for fear of having their elections challenged and declared void : expenses have to be declared and opponents keep a wary eye open for any infringement of election law . |
| 7 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 8 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 9 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 10 | ‘ Clubs are free to enter as many runners as they wish , ’ said organiser Paul Whitten . |
| 11 | Well the City in fact has twenty one Community Centres , most of which have bars , some of them only have small bars that open maybe once a week , others have very large bars , and especially the ones with the larger bars I think are willing to take on such a project . |
| 12 | As Mr Frohnmayer writes : ‘ Few , it seems , are willing to take on those who cloak themselves in the mantle of religion , no matter how far they stray from religious doctrine or behaviour . ’ |
| 13 | Second , whether adoptive parents could be found who are willing to take on this new challenge . |
| 14 | Some fellows , when they have had a few drinks , and are in the presence of an attractive woman , are prone to talk too much . |
| 15 | Not all dogs are dangerous entails Not all animals are dangerous 2 . |
| 16 | We know that you are sad to see so many disputes between different parts of your family and we cry to you for unity and harmony between brothers and sisters . |
| 17 | There literally is everything under the sun , and you 're free to do as much or as little as you want . |
| 18 | From then on you 're free to choose as many or as few books as you wish . |
| 19 | You 're supposed to go out that way , Mikila . |
| 20 | Well you 're supposed to record as much as you can . |
| 21 | well not really stick , stick them in a tumble dryer if you 're lucky depends how much money you 've got |
| 22 | ‘ You 're lucky to have so much freedom . ’ |
| 23 | They 're lucky to get so much as a mouthful . |
| 24 | Yes , because we 're all facing very much the same kind of problems . |
| 25 | I think you 're all reading too much into the Morrissey thing as to why he wrapped himself in the Union Jack , I think he was probably just cold … |
| 26 | Oh well me mother said , If they 're all coming right all my family 's coming . |
| 27 | How can you possibly drive when you 're all wound up that way ? ’ |
| 28 | Food Giant claims we 're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets . |
| 29 | But if you look at the H and the A's , they 're in fact , feature-wise , identical but you 're able to work out that one 's er an H and one 's an E based on the context . |
| 30 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |