Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mesic had been due to take up office on May 15 , under the system of rotating leadership , but Serbia , Vojvodina and Bosnia Hercegovina blocked his appointment , thus precipitating a constitutional deadlock . |
| 2 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 3 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 8 | And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The study shows that normal enterocytes are able to take up PT-gliadin . |
| 13 | The activated lymphocytes are able to use up glucose extremely quickly . |
| 14 | Where listed buildings stand empty and completely abandoned they are able to carry out emergency work themselves and send the bills to the owners . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are drafted by permanent government officials who are concerned to seek out expert opinion on the issues in question . |
| 17 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 18 | Since fusion , courts have been able to administer both law and equity but the distinction between , on the one hand , the costs to be allowed to a successful mortgagee/litigant and , on the other hand , the costs that should be allowed to a mortgagee on the taking of an account in a redemption or foreclosure action remains a real one . |
| 19 | In close communities like mines , the workers have been able to express both grief and anger openly . |
| 20 | Users of private WANs have been able to send both voice and data over the same lines for years . |
| 21 | The low spending figure is , in part , a tribute to the way the NHS has been able to keep down health costs which have increased much faster in other countries , most notably those with insurance-based systems of finance ( see below ) . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , their opponents are busy taking out newspaper advertisements , buying air time and working the telephones . |
| 23 | It may be possible to take out insurance against this . |
| 24 | With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism . |
| 25 | With careful modification of materials ( exploiting , for example , steric hindrance , charge effects , hydrophobic groups ) , it may be possible to control both solute partitioning and diffusion into a biolayer and to gain greater control over the behaviour of the biolayer . |
| 26 | In each case it may be possible to print out target costs against each subsection and therefore quantify any profit or loss . |
| 27 | The myth was expressed this way : if only higher management would come out of their offices and join the workers on the shop floor it would be possible to create better working conditions . |
| 28 | Curbs on ownership of water buffaloes and other ruminant emitters do not seem likely , nor would it be possible to cover up rice paddies and melting permafrost in the tundra . |
| 29 | Your local farmer may be prepared to hire out equipment , such as this post rammer , to divide up your paddock |
| 30 | Once the school has formed the relationship many companies will be prepared to take on sponsorship or allocate funds . |