Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government are right to seek a twin-track approach whereby we retain the essential strength and security of NATO while developing a new role for the Western European Union . |
| 2 | I think that they are right to want a sufficient number of qualified paediatric specialists in the hospital . |
| 3 | This suggests that we are right to make a powerful link between evangelism and church planting . |
| 4 | Pakistan are due to end a short tour here on January 8 and we have no international cricket scheduled then until the end of February , when Australia arrive here . |
| 5 | It is likely that this will change as LaserGo , the authors of GoScript , are due to introduce a special card which will contain its own processor and memory capable of running the program . |
| 6 | Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule . |
| 7 | There are four men wearing animal and bird masks ( fig. 14.13 ) , two are each holding a hooked stick , the lagobolon , used for hunting hares . |
| 8 | The three major national firms are each trying a different solution . |
| 9 | Or they are up against an anti-terrorist policy so cynical that its devisers are prepared to sacrifice a certain amount of civilian life in order to strip the terrorists of any legitimacy . |
| 10 | They need to have genetic material , pollen , transported from one individual plant to another and they are prepared to sacrifice a substantial proportion of it as food to those that will do the job . |
| 11 | I 'm , I 'm rather disappointed that erm neither the Conservatives or the Labour Party are prepared to support a reasonable erm er reasonable plan because erm the , the Chairman is not certain plan which is represented by ourselves , Brian and Michael are routing very , very hard for a regional er airport whilst in fact that National Airport as passing along with a , a National Road er transportation strategy and everything else you can think of . |
| 12 | Third , it seems that most adults are predisposed to respond to infants as social beings , and they are prepared to spend a considerable amount of time and energy in establishing a degree of social rapport . |
| 13 | How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment ? |
| 14 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 15 | To make money in engineering contracting you have got to work at the blue chip end of the market , people who want a top class value-for-money service and are prepared to pay a reasonable price for it . |
| 16 | So tempting infact that four hundred enthusiasts are prepared to pay a small fortune for the cahnce to try it . |
| 17 | Nat West Chief Executive Tom Frost said : ‘ We are prepared to make a public commitment to supporting small businesses . |
| 18 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 19 | And when the celebrations are over have a nice soak in the bath with The Grown Up 's First Bath Book ( Windrush , £7.99 ) a plastic book full of puzzles , anagrams and trivia , complete with a felt-tip pen . |
| 20 | Local authorities and other spending bodies are free to provide a different level of service and may vary in their efficiency . |
| 21 | But , as Ms Walls and Ms Marcus point out , a better way to direct the trade is through the solution that the market has come up with : private waste-management companies now typically pay host fees to places that are willing to accept a new landfill . |
| 22 | I am prepared to hold a similar ‘ Teach-in ’ for your District Councillors if they would like to avail themselves of this . |
| 23 | Two methods exist , one of which , after suitable domestic experimentation , I am prepared to offer a qualified recommendation . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , of course , there are his heavy duties as librarian — checking through all those magazines to make sure they 're intact takes a fair bit of time . |
| 25 | Y you know it 's it does n't take much to push someone into the situation where they 're prepared to take a big loan from a money lender , to try and clear all their other debts . |
| 26 | And I think you 're supposed to prune a little bit , are n't you ? |
| 27 | They 're supposed to bring a strange kind of ecstatic death by drowning — although it is n't really described as a death at all , more a passage from one world to another . |
| 28 | Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're supposed to make a joyful noise unto the Lord , are n't we , Samuel ? ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , it 's funny , usually find with joiners I do n't know , i they 're supposed to have a good eye for strai |