Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both proponents and protesters are right to present their views and it is incumbent on politicians to ensure that adequate regulatory controls provide as large a degree of environmental protection as is possible when dealing with the relatively unknown . |
| 2 | Moreover , their sons are loth to follow their fathers into farming . |
| 3 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 4 | Derek Dooley and his family are due to leave their private rented house in Louisa Street in June . |
| 5 | Armed police were called to Markham Main , near Doncaster , South Yorkshire , where 730 men are due to lose their jobs . |
| 6 | Morrison and Farrelly should clinch the titles at the Mourne Club event at Dundrum , where three English Honda riders , Lindley Francis , Clive Morgan and Wayne Faulkner are due to make their Irish debut . |
| 7 | They are due to play their 1,000th performance in mid-April . |
| 8 | Bilateral talks are being planned for tomorrow between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers , who are due to meet their Belarussian and Kazakh counterparts to discuss ratification of the US-Soviet Start agreement on cutting strategic nuclear missiles . |
| 9 | In April 17th Iraqi diplomats are due to meet their Iranian counterparts in Geneva for a new round of peace talks . |
| 10 | Chelsea are due to announce their new manager tomorrow , and Hoddle still has n't denied reports that it 's him . |
| 11 | David , Grant and Stuart are due to complete their studies towards the end of 1995 but have already cleared the first hurdle . |
| 12 | The US negotiators had been due to meet their EC counterparts in Brussels to discuss the dispute over bids for EC utility contracts . |
| 13 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers there refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 14 | The staff from the Abingdon Sorting Office had been due to resume their duties this afternoon at the end of the county-wide dispute , but the workers refused to go back after part of an agreement with managers was altered . |
| 15 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 16 | That 's what H M I P did they got further information from British Coal they met er on Friday er with their colleagues at the National Rivers Authority and it 's from that greater understanding of the application that H M I P have now said that they are prepared to withdraw their objection subject to the imposition of the conditions at the N R A request . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many workers are prepared to offload their problems during the witching hour , ’ he said when he was told of the project . |
| 18 | Local villagers are prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than move to the inadequate , drought-prone resettlement areas ; many who moved to the resettlement areas in past years are now returning to their threatened villages . |
| 19 | The wives are having to go back to work to maintain the mortgage and they are prepared to take their part of it . |
| 20 | It is no surprise that people are prepared to risk their lives before the bulldozers . |
| 21 | In defence of his claim that there was ‘ no evidence to suggest that people are prepared to abandon their traditional party allegiances ’ , Stott pointed out that in two recent elections , candidates supported by the Campaign for Labour Representation polled badly : |
| 22 | In order to survive and to get the most from their surroundings reef fish are prepared to defend their territories against all competition and have developed an armoury of weapons and defence strategies . |
| 23 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 24 | However , there is no official going rate for estate agency fees and if individual agents are prepared to cut their fees , this is only for a business reason . |
| 25 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 26 | I mean if you can come up with the witnesses that are prepared to stick their head in the noose and say that . |
| 27 | Supposing you have taken part in an evaluation exercise and some conclusions have been mutually agreed , do you find that on the whole people are prepared to change their habits presumably in some cases habits built up over many years ? |
| 28 | They are always quibbling about the amount they are prepared to pay their staff while drawing enormous salaries for themselves . |
| 29 | Another factor affecting the impact of political pressure is the degree to which groups are prepared to make their protest felt . |
| 30 | In practice most buyers are prepared to have their names used for publicity purposes provided that this is done in a controlled manner and with their prior consent . |