Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 2 | They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’ |
| 3 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 5 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 6 | With their experienced hooker David Watkinson still struggling for fitness , Dewsbury are likely to retain the same side as Sunday . |
| 7 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , all the cells within a plant are likely to have the same genes , because only very recent mutations could divide them . |
| 8 | His preferences can be illustrated by means of a set of indifference curves which are likely to have the same shape as those depicted in Chapter 4 for the case of an individual choosing between two goods . |
| 9 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 10 | But after the sterling crisis , Mr Major had been quick to brand the same markets as irrational , Mr Smith declared . |
| 11 | This three-star establishment is a sister hotel to the nearby Tyrol & Alpenhof hotels , and guests at the Haus Orplid are welcome to use the many facilities at these hotels . |
| 12 | The club that once prided itself on having so few injuries they could field the same team week in week out now has so many invalids they are lucky to have the same side two games running . |
| 13 | Though the NAIC wants firms only to reach its minimum capital requirement , not to compete on the degree by which they exceed it , insurers are sure to do the latter , the study says . |
| 14 | Forest have had a £175,000 offer rejected by the Fourth Division club who are unwilling to sell the former Kettering player while still in the FA Cup . |
| 15 | The Collector had been unable to see the latter part of this action , which had taken place in thick yellow dust and smoke ( the snow having mysteriously ceased ) . |
| 16 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 17 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 18 | Although heavy feeders such as groupers and lionfish , among the predators ; and porcupinefish or triggerfish , the Billy Bunters of the omnivores , are able to tolerate the less than perfect conditions that they product , other more delicate species will not succeed . |
| 19 | The specialist gardens are able to access the Plant Records system through dial-up modems , and are able to use the same PCs for word processing , small databases , and spreadsheets for numerical data , such as climate records and finance . |
| 20 | The ‘ cost of capital ’ may be low enough and there may be a strong demand for the type of commodity which the investment project aims at producing , but if other competing enterprises are able to supply the same commodity or a close substitute more cheaply ( or of a higher quality ) then the project will not be ‘ commercially viable . ’ |
| 21 | Only if other scientists are able to obtain the same results using similar methods of operation , will a result be taken seriously and treated to further tests . |
| 22 | The East India Company might have liked to have been able to take the same detached attitude as the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 23 | where Trevor Rowley has been able to explain the many routeways as a reflection of the straker routes of commoners herding animals from lowland settlements to upland pastures . |
| 24 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 25 | We 'd been able to keep the same crew from coast to coast , he said , only because of the two rest breaks along the way . |
| 26 | It would be rash to assume the former ; and realistic to accept that some gurus are the latter , especially those who have become ‘ brands ’ in their own right . |
| 27 | That cash aid is due to run out on March 31 and unit organiser Kate Harker said there were concerns that without the Government money it would not be possible to continue the same level of service . |
| 28 | It may be helpful , when considering a precedent , to ask why a particular term has been included , and what it is intended to achieve , and then consider whether the same result can be achieved in any other way : for instance , it may be possible to express the same idea more clearly or concisely . |
| 29 | If an effective method can be found , then it may be possible to utilise the same information to aid the choice of candidate words in positions where no error has been found . |
| 30 | But only one in 25 Vauxhalls sold last year was a diesel , so it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of stocks and enthusiasm from a Vauxhall dealer . |