Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | We should assess the current and future requirements for GIS within RBGE , to determine whether or not it would be cost-effective to acquire our own expertise and hardware in-house , or contract out our GIS work . |
2 | We , as jurymen , must listen to one set of evidence only and be prepared to do our own mental cross-examination . |
3 | To some extent this may be ameliorated by offering a cash alternative to shareholders , but the offeror must be prepared to defend its own financial condition and may even be compelled to issue a profit or dividend forecast in order to buttress its position . |
4 | Actors must be prepared to create their own work . |
5 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
6 | They may be prepared to build their own checks into ordering referring unscheduled or non-conforming orders to unit management for specific authorisation before actioning . |
7 | At the same time , the purchaser will not wish to return cash to the vendor that he has not yet collected from debtors , nor will the purchaser be willing to use its own funds to satisfy creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
8 | Since this possibility existed , the court considered that it would be improper to substitute its own judgment as to whether it was wise to proceed for that of the directors . |
9 | She would soon be free to go her own way once more , and that was what she wanted , was n't it ? |
10 | ‘ While the Labour Party must be free to reach its own conclusions , we should listen to the contributions which others wish to make to what must now become an important national debate . ’ |
11 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , in a marked shift of attitude , stated before the meeting that the peoples of Europe had to be free to choose their own future , while Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher warned that Germany would press for severe political and economic sanctions against Yugoslavia if the army continued to defy the federal authorities . |
12 | She would n't have to be dependent on my father any more and she would be free to live her own life . |
13 | There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash . |
14 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
15 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
16 | This habitual restraint produces a docility which woman requires all her life long , for she will always be in subjection to a man , or to man 's judgment , and she will never be free to set her own opinion above his . |
17 | Subsidiaries will be free to set their own prices . |
18 | Land would remain state-owned and might not be bought or sold , but inheritance rights over land would be guaranteed and peasants would be free to set their own prices for their produce . |
19 | Under the agreement EC airlines would be free to set their own tariffs from January 1993 and to fly between any EC country . |
20 | Each person must be free to pursue their own case , ’ said Miss Nicholson . |
21 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
22 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
23 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
24 | Enterprise managers would be free to make their own deals with suppliers , but there would be no change in the basic concept of state ownership of industry . |
25 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
26 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex last week , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system . |
27 | Just as you do not wish others to inflict their desires upon you , you must leave it to them to be free to follow their own direction in life . |
28 | An underlying principle of the project was that each school must be free to develop its own proposal and curriculum plan in the light of its own particular setting , needs , and history , and that this was not only practically desirable but also essential if the professional autonomy of the school staff was to be respected . |
29 | In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality . |
30 | However , do n't be afraid to use your own initiative and approach individual firms and organisations . |