Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists are right to argue for strong controls on the way waste is managed . |
| 2 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 3 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 4 | If they are prepared to move with apparent ease into surroundings of this nature , will they equally find no problems by moving into the Wembley Arenas of this world ? |
| 5 | It is no doubt true that there is a reduced need for rigorous liability rules where the shareholders are in a position to exercise a real , informed choice about the appointment and removal of directors , and are prepared to engage in active monitoring of management . |
| 6 | For as each of the speakers agreed , it will be those booksellers and publishers who are prepared to respond to new and changing circumstances , while preserving the best of the old order , who will ultimately reap the benefit . |
| 7 | I was about to add : If you are agreeable — and if you are prepared to abide by certain conditions … . ’ |
| 8 | As Maria Luisa de Rojas , one of the founding members of AMES explained , many women are frightened of joining an overtly political organization but are prepared to organize with other women around issues which affect them immediately . |
| 9 | Payments are being offered to farmers and landowners who are prepared to enter into 10-year agreements to manage suitable land by following conservation guidelines . |
| 10 | The situation in England was quite different at this time , and illustrates the principle that the horizons of what scholars are prepared to believe about musical performance in the past can be set by what their contemporaries among performers are able to provide . |
| 11 | of people are prepared to pay for built-in car security features . |
| 12 | As a result , a number of employers are prepared to pay for interest-free loans . |
| 13 | That will be bad for shareholders but something they will have to accept unless they are prepared to fight for fair value . |
| 14 | Berkeley was not alone in questioning whether geometrical methods are adequate to account for visual perception since there was a large literature on the subject by ‘ scientists ’ and , as Kemp shows , artists also frequently commented on it . |
| 15 | But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime . |
| 16 | The constricted room for manoeuvre that Friedman had been prepared to assign to monetary ( but not fiscal ) policy in affecting real variables was repudiated in the writings of the new classical school . |
| 17 | It is an experience they have been prepared to share with other communities , and Jim Killeen has spoken against mining at meetings in Westport , Co . |
| 18 | This implies that in the absence of specific constraints subjects are free to attend to different aspects of the stimulus . |
| 19 | If two populations are separated by a geographical barrier , they are free to evolve in different directions . |
| 20 | As a result , users are free to focus on high-level analysis , and do n't need to waste time on details , such as row or column management , usually necessary when manipulating a spreadsheet . |
| 21 | While acquisitions , disposals and foreign subsidiaries all feature , I do not believe that it is particularly difficult — if you have a basic understanding and are willing to think in broad financial accounting terms . |
| 22 | When households initially decide the flow of their labour services that they are willing to supply at different values for the real wage rate they are simultaneously deciding the quantities of goods which they demand in exchange for those services . |
| 23 | The Government 's new City Challenge Initiative , which we are all hoping will be accepted er on behalf of , that they are willing to look at social partnership with firms , although we have reservations about some of their proposals er in that area . |
| 24 | We have next to inquire what causes govern supply prices , that is prices which dealers are willing to accept for different amounts . |
| 25 | Despite the over-arching presence of a sizeable clutch of masterstrokes , the Inspirals manage to deliver a few turkeys — ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ , for all its anthemic pretensions , still sounds like cloying Radio 2 fodder , and arty pieces like ‘ Flood ’ are prone to descend into unseemly pomposity . |
| 26 | Avoid geraniums with double or semi-double flowers as , unlike the single varieties they do n't drop their petals as they fade , and the blooms are prone to rot in wet weather . |
| 27 | Although efficiencies are tiny compared to solid state solar energy systems ( unc per cent compared to 12 to 18 per cent ) it is the best yet for biomimetic devices . |
| 28 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 29 | Sandvik chisels ( shown below ) are made from high quality tool steel , with bevel-edged blades and a cutting angle of 25° , so they 're easy to use in tight corners . |
| 30 | I 'd say something like a hundred million million times harder than anything you 're likely to do in normal everyday life . |