Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 3 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 4 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 5 | The government are prepared to consider alternative arrangements for controlling the budget of the C & AG , but the implications for the staff of the E & AD would need to be considered . |
| 6 | " Our preference is to resolve the [ Gulf ] crisis peacefully , " but " if the current steps fail to end it , we are prepared to consider additional ones consistent with the UN charter . " |
| 7 | The degree to which characters in dramatic texts are prepared to interrupt other speakers is an important indication of their power and confidence in a given speech situation . |
| 8 | Shane may now be shorn of groping groupies and desperate sports hacks who ring him at five o'clock in the morning , but there 's certainly no shortage of England batsmen who are prepared to play dazzled rabbits to his Mack truck headlights . |
| 9 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 10 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 11 | The fact , as one commentator has pointed out , that bidders are prepared to pay substantial premiums over the existing stock market valuation of a company in order to gain control indicates that despite the presence of the take-over threat bidders still believe that there is considerable scope for efficiency gains . |
| 12 | There are obvious PR advantages in cooperating with such projects when approached , sometimes financial benefits can be achieved as well , where companies are prepared to pay substantial sums for the use of our facilities for filming . |
| 13 | Fans are prepared to pay inflated prices for the Mugler style . |
| 14 | The top brands , such as Mistral , benefit from such thinking since some people are prepared to pay high prices to ‘ buy ’ confidence in their equipment . |
| 15 | But cancer may take decades to develop , and we know that if we are prepared to make certain changes in how we live , we can help to protect ourselves . |
| 16 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 17 | President Lennart Johansson said last night they are prepared to discuss innovative plans from a group of Europe 's wealthiest clubs , but added : ‘ I can not see the benefit of a league which makes the already rich richer , and the other ones poorer . ’ |
| 18 | In return for media coverage and the ‘ clean ’ image of sport , sponsors are prepared to provide big injections of cash . |
| 19 | Many readers possess their own forms of transport and are prepared to travel reasonable distances within the authority when requiring material urgently . |
| 20 | In the meantime the discussion will largely remain within the shareholder-centred conception of business enterprise , and during the course of the next seven chapters it will be considered whether in practice the mechanisms of shareholder control , particularly against a background of widely dispersed holdings , are adequate to promote satisfactory levels of corporate efficiency . |
| 21 | This graph demonstrates that , providing that we are careful to establish safe intervals for the various parameters , we can find a normalised measure which is remarkably linear with respect to true area . |
| 22 | But the Law Society and the Bar are free to retain professional rules which prevent barristers and solicitors from practising in partnership with each other or with other professionals . |
| 23 | Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware . |
| 24 | The second part of the festival , which resulted in the final performance , raised vital questions about the way women relate to one another when they are free to make real choices . |
| 25 | ‘ It means we are free to pursue other offers of public support , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Released from the constraints of both shareholders and any market , managers are free to become public servants , ‘ a purely neutral technocracy , balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 27 | They are not to do with whether we 're Catholic or Protestant , they 're more to do with whether we 're open or closed sort of people , whether we are willing to risk new ideas and the challenge of our old ones , or whether we want to scuttle away into our little corners and keep what we 've got . |
| 28 | Some of the best partnership schemes are those where business offers support and resources to schools which are willing to tackle real problems . |
| 29 | Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments , whilst headhunters maximise them , and neither are willing to divulge exact figures . |
| 30 | Indeed the decision in Malone is an indication of the extent to which the British courts are willing to tolerate major invasions of civil liberties without any express authority vested in state agents . |