Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [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 | Two Harwich-based firms , Bernard Uniforms and Mansped , are each to shed ten workers as the recession continues to hit the area . |
| 3 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 4 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 7 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 8 | If you are prepared to take fewer flights and welcome the security of confirmed flights , a fixed-route airpass may be best . |
| 9 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When other Community Governments are prepared to extend those rights to their people , is not it completely wrong for the British Government to refuse to do the same for the British people ? |
| 12 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 13 | Unless we , as legislators , are prepared to treat such circumstances with that degree of seriousness , rather than allowing fines even in the low thousands to be imposed , we are unlikely to secure the safety culture to which North sea workers are , sadly , not accustomed but are certainly entitled . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 19 | The key issue is the amount of money the host nations are prepared to pay competing countries . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Fans are prepared to pay inflated prices for the Mugler style . |
| 23 | Those with new , more productive equipment are prepared to pay higher wages to attract labour than are those with older machinery because the former can operate profitably at higher wage levels than the latter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | We are prepared to discuss any alterations you wish to make to your indicative offer at any stage during the due diligence process . |
| 30 | Let me assume that you would like to enter for practice at the Bar and are prepared to brave all hazards . |