Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 2 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 4 | I am sorry to bother you with my problems , but as my real mother , I feel you have a right to know about your daughter 's situation . |
| 5 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 6 | ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’ |
| 7 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 8 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 9 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 10 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 11 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 12 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 13 | Should you still feel dissatisfied you may personally bring your grievance to the notice of Personnel Management Division or you are free to raise it with your staff association or trade union who may take action on your behalf . |
| 14 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 15 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 16 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 17 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 18 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 19 | I am delighted to welcome you to the University of Ulster . |
| 20 | Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read . |
| 21 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 22 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 23 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | You 're supposed to put it in there , because if it 's up to there it 's balancing . |
| 25 | There 's probably a list in there of the ones you 're supposed to give them to . |
| 26 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 27 | The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’ |
| 28 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 29 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 30 | " We 're lucky to have him with us . |