Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 62 | He says that some bank lenders and creditors have already indicated they are prepared to lend more money to the company . |
| 63 | Many practitioners still feel that a normal menstrual blood loss measurement does not affect their management , provided that the patient 's quality of life is affected , despite evidence that patients with normal measurements are prepared to forego any treatment . |
| 64 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 65 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 66 | It is therefore fair to say that , as a general rule , the courts are prepared to imply some degree of mobility into every contract of employment but this is likely to be limited unless the nature of the job or work performed by the employee is one where mobility would be recognised by both sides as being essential to the job . |
| 67 | ESSEX are prepared to offer former England captain Keith Fletcher ‘ a job for life ’ in an attempt to persuade him not to become the next England team manager . |
| 68 | But there are many teachers in many schools who feel the need to break out of the cycle of crisis management and low morale so keenly that they are prepared to make those commitments . |
| 69 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 70 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 71 | We are prepared to discuss any alterations you wish to make to your indicative offer at any stage during the due diligence process . |
| 72 | So it seems unfortunate that they report that relatively few shops are prepared to work this system . |
| 73 | Let me assume that you would like to enter for practice at the Bar and are prepared to brave all hazards . |
| 74 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 75 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 76 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
| 77 | The situation at the other end must have been grave to warrant such an effort . |
| 78 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 79 | Their bursts of sound are very crude in comparison with the well-regulated clicks of the oilbirds and cave swiftlets , but are adequate to guide these much slower , ground-based animals . |
| 80 | Church musicians are well advised to ensure that church policies , whether with EIG or another company , are adequate to cover both their own needs and the instruments and equipment which they use . |
| 81 | With some of the open clusters , binoculars are adequate to show many individual stars , though in other cases the overall effect will be a gentle blur of light . |
| 82 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 83 | The Democrats in Congress had then been willing to accept such measures provided that the President would agree to more federal funding for local law enforcement and controls on the sale of assault weapons . |
| 84 | Since the 1970s , however , fewer and fewer black , Asian or Coloured people have been willing to accept this separate and unequal provision . |
| 85 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 86 | As usual , they have been willing to sub-contract these important decisions to the nuclear industry and to stand back , like Pontius Pilate , and say , ’ This has nothing to do with us . ’ |
| 87 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 88 | For the last two years , the policy has been prepared to give all these people the chance to live a full and independent life , not in hospitals and institutions , but at home , as part of our community . |
| 89 | The government had never been prepared to take any action without incontrovertible proof of a direct relationship between an industrial process and a particular pattern of death , disease or environmental damage . |
| 90 | Most empiricists , for example , have been prepared to do this with secondary qualities , such as colours , sounds and smells , which , they believe , science could not allow to the external world . |