Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it could be argued that it would not have been possible to allow greater competition without changes in regulation to counteract the increased levels of risk that comes with more intense competition . |
| 2 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The residents of Kent are generally fairly prosperous and many are prepared to forgo higher growth in order to preserve the Garden of England from the depredations of developers . |
| 5 | They must show potential proliferators that they are prepared to secure further reductions in their nuclear arsenals . |
| 6 | However , 70 per cent said that they are willing to pay higher prices for environmentally safe goods and services . |
| 7 | You 're prepared to work longer hours , to get the work done . |
| 8 | We 're able to entice further revenue out of Brussels with the support of the private sector . |
| 9 | But it is the language of the statement and the comments attributed to Edwards that are likely to cause further friction between him and both local climbers — with whom he has been in conflict in the past — and the BMC . |
| 10 | This is a haematoma and if it is in an area where you are likely to receive further knocks , you should withdraw from the competition . |
| 11 | Until there is good evidence that attempts to modify the ecology of the gastrointestinal tract are beneficial , attention to accepted standards and the further development of a multidisciplinary approach to infection in intensive care units are likely to reap greater rewards . |
| 12 | They are likely to enjoy higher standards of health , and to live longer ; they are less likely to be convicted of a criminal offence ; they are more likely to own their own house and a variety of consumer goods . |
| 13 | Criminological science should be able to predict which offenders ( and perhaps even which people who have not yet offended ) are likely to commit further crimes . |
| 14 | The Co Down side are likely to prove easier opponents for the Blues than last night 's adversaries , Georgian team Dinamo Tbilisi . |
| 15 | About 60 p.c. will be A bonds , so investors expecting redemption in 1994 may have to wait several extra years for full repayment : holders are likely to seek higher interest rates as compensation . |
| 16 | If Christmas or the Summer holidays are approaching and people are likely to make bigger cash withdrawals , banks may decide to hold more liquid assets . |
| 17 | It shows that companies recording absences manually are likely to have higher incidences of the problem than those keeping computerised records . |
| 18 | Some pieces of work , on the other hand , require a lot of reading and study time during composition ; and for these you are likely to produce better work if you choose questions that genuinely interest you , or connect with problems you are in any case interested in outside your literary work , rather than if you feel your work is being done out of obligation or under duress . |
| 19 | Approximately 4 per cent of the general population experience multiple hospital admissions in childhood , and two-fifths of these are likely to show later disturbance . |
| 20 | Sebastian Schmidt , Sotheby 's Munich expert , supports company policy of auctioning works by Nolde , Nay and Jawlensky in Berlin where they are likely to fetch higher prices . |
| 21 | Elderly people are likely to exercise better judgement whilst using buses and to become more assertive in conveying their intentions to drivers . |
| 22 | The provision of an adequate flat-rate pension would also prove a better vehicle than pension-splitting for dealing with the problems that are likely to face older women in the future as a result of divorce . |
| 23 | In both cases , however , taxpayers are likely to be concerned with how actual spending turns out ( hence the use of the word ‘ out-turns ’ to refer to actuals ) against budgeted spending ; not least because over-spendings are likely to mean higher taxes and under-spendings lower ones . |
| 24 | The man donating the sperm and the woman wanting the insemination , are supposed to have safer sex through the time lag . |
| 25 | Er , I do n't think it 's so common wi with , with adults who are supposed to have better control over these things , but it certainly sometimes happens with children . |
| 26 | Local health and social services , for example , are unlikely to develop better care for mentally disordered offenders within their own home districts unless financial incentives encourage them to do so . |
| 27 | MORE WOMEN than ever prefer the contraceptive pill as their means of birth control and many are reluctant to consider newer methods , according to a recent survey . |
| 28 | Through the use of registers ATNs are able to enforce further restrictions on the input such as number agreement . |
| 29 | These are able to offer higher interest returns than a bank or building society because they pool everybody 's cash . |
| 30 | Though state-owned companies are able to achieve keener interest rates by borrowing from the Government through the National Loan Fund , they are constrained in the amount they can borrow and the uses to which the money can be put because all such borrowings count towards the public sector borrowing requirement . |