Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S next generation of buy-in managers will be experienced managing directors seeking greater job satisfaction and who are prepared to invest around £100,000 , according to research by investment capital group 3i . |
| 3 | Students from countries within the European Community are free to take up employment during vacations but unemployment is high in the United Kingdom and there are few jobs vacant . |
| 4 | Without unions fighting to keep up wages , employers are free to cut back costs by squeezing pay rather than by sacking marginal workers . |
| 5 | I think , therefore we are extremely fortunate , that so many people of distinction and talent are willing to give up time to serve on the Executive of the N C V O to work with the honourary officers and the Director and her team , to ensure that N C V O maintain such a central role in watching over our interests and in promoting the concerns of the people of this country , that we are all so active about . |
| 6 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 7 | The disputes in the councils which followed the election of Sinn Fein representatives in 1985 has made it clear that loyalists are willing to close down councils rather than work with Sinn Fein , and the younger generation of DUP activists has been fully active in the promotion of that position . |
| 8 | We are delighted to welcome back LTA Rover coach Olga Morozova to Tennis World . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 10 | And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ? |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of foxes have mange , and handling them , you are likely to pick up mites . |
| 12 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 13 | Then we are likely to seek out people who can be close to us , sometimes clinging to them for support , as if our own security was dependent upon their actual and continued physical presence . |
| 14 | Farmers are short of cash , and are likely to step up sales early in the season , lifting exports from the two countries to near record levels over the next six months . |
| 15 | Barnet , desperate for money to resolve their problems , are likely to net around £500,000 from the sale to Notts County of striker Gary Bull , cousin of Wolves striker Steve . |
| 16 | As the mouthpiece of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , he asks whether authorities are supposed to send out bills for 100 per cent . |
| 17 | The Flying Foxes are the Siamese variety , which are supposed to gobble up algae faster than it can grow . |
| 18 | If elected local authorities are fit to draw up development plans and to judge the vast majority of planning applications , it would be odd to say that they were not fit to judge their own development proposals . |
| 19 | ‘ I am sure putting up lights would not cost a lot and it would give us peace of mind . ’ |
| 20 | While this is not conceptually difficult many trainees are reluctant to give up labels that they believe are common sense shorthand . |
| 21 | The size of this type of unemployment is obviously extremely difficult to estimate , but it may be quite substantial , particularly in those industries with powerful trade unions where employers are reluctant to lay off workers for fears of initiating an industrial dispute . |
| 22 | Though I am reluctant to lay down rules , I do find the following guidelines , set out in the Fowlers ' The King ‘ s English , helpful as a sort of mental checklist for my own work : |
| 23 | We are unable to explain why vitamin B12 absorption decreased during treatment with loperamide oxide , but can only comment that the magnitude of the change was relatively small . |
| 24 | The study shows that normal enterocytes are able to take up PT-gliadin . |
| 25 | The activated lymphocytes are able to use up glucose extremely quickly . |
| 26 | The search software is user-friendly , with menu-driven commands , colour screens and help facilities , and users are able to carry out searches themselves with little or no instruction from library staff . |
| 27 | Where listed buildings stand empty and completely abandoned they are able to carry out emergency work themselves and send the bills to the owners . |
| 28 | Social researchers , especially those who are not experienced programmers , find difficulty in using this package , although by using it they are able to carry out analyses which , using conventional packages , are almost impossible . |
| 29 | However , considerable experience and expertise is available from specialist lift companies who are able to carry out traffic studies and listen to detailed requirements so that they can propose a range of solutions . |
| 30 | Similarly , in the same year , John Wilson wrote : ‘ So long as we are concerned to turn out pupils who are good middle-class boys or skilled technicians [ then we are not really concerned with education but with training ] . |