Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 2 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’ |
| 4 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 5 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 6 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 7 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 8 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 9 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 10 | Should you still feel dissatisfied you may personally bring your grievance to the notice of Personnel Management Division or you are free to raise it with your staff association or trade union who may take action on your behalf . |
| 11 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 12 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 13 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 14 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 15 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 16 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 17 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 18 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 19 | ‘ If you want a power-sharing executive , you are likely to blow it with the council , I said . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the sale agreement will treat income arising after the transfer date as belonging to the purchaser , the Inland Revenue are likely to treat it as income of the vendor . |
| 21 | The FA are appalled by Jones ' contribution and are likely to charge him with misconduct . |
| 22 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 23 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 24 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 25 | If used carefully and correctly , condoms are likely to provide you with an effective barrier against HIV infection during penetrative sex ( they are 98% reliable ) . |
| 26 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 27 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 28 | People like Jack are supposed to represent us in Parliament and he comes out with nonsense like that . |
| 29 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 30 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |