Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 2 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course , members are free to raise these issues , though the appropriate forum is the Annual General Meeting rather than the Annual Conference . |
| 7 | Vogue Patterns are delighted to offer these designer patterns by Betty Jackson at a special introductory price to Clothes Show Magazine readers . |
| 8 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 9 | Potential buyers who do know the works well are likely to find these performances ( under the company 's new Music Director , John Pryce-Jones ) decent but unremarkable , though enhanced by the brightly appealing sound . |
| 10 | British experts are likely to dispute these calculations which are based on mathematical models that attempt to extrapolate likely human cancers from laboratory studies . |
| 11 | You may meet those who are themselves unhappy , bitter , cynical , twisted and limited , who are likely to express these feelings in a destructive way , particularly in their attitudes towards others . |
| 12 | The forces of reaction which spring up in the face of change are swift to exaggerate these undesirable elements of the situation and to use the arguments which exploitation provides for repression . |
| 13 | The Leeds Service Crew are all retired these days , reclining in the West Stand and checking the papers for their shares . |
| 14 | You are all representing these branches |
| 15 | ‘ Serious Crimes Squad : you chaps are like Canute these days , trying to hold back the tide . ’ |
| 16 | The investors are unlikely to underwrite these fees until the transaction has been completed , when they can be met out of the funding provided . |
| 17 | Several features of the older age groups which are currently taken for granted , including the predominance of women and the stereotype of the elderly spinster , in part reflect cohort effects ; future generations are unlikely to display these trends to the same degree . |
| 18 | Erm those are the people that are unlikely to get these . |
| 19 | The process does not require you to use Debug , as you suggest , and disk canning programs are unlikely to identify these problems if they only manifest themselves when the machine is cold . |
| 20 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 21 | However , some tutors seem to feel that they are unable to accept these modifications despite the syllabus remaining virtually unchanged , though more comprehensive , as befits the education and examination standards of a ‘ professional ’ body that hopes for national recognition . |
| 22 | There are many species of bacteria of the Bacteroides fragilis group that are able to degrade these substances and thereby release free sulphate which would then become available for utilisation by sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 23 | By replicating the relevant conditions scientists are able to see these laws manifest themselves again and again . |
| 24 | Finally , there is another aim which relates to both Sections A and B , and which none of the models has taken seriously enough : 7. help pupils to learn how to cope with controversy , complexity , confusion , and uncertainty within a safe environment , so that they are able to manage these unavoidable aspects of life without trying to resort to premature certainty , dogmatism or exclusivism . |
| 25 | We are able to circulate these reports and I think that 's working extremely well . |
| 26 | In some instances , patients are able to discontinue these habits themselves without much difficulty later on . |
| 27 | ‘ Many people AEA-wide are able to access these databases , ’ explained Tim Dixon of Harwell 's Library and Information Service . |
| 28 | Inevitably it is the fittest who are able to find these rations while children , the old , and the weak go without . |
| 29 | Normally priced at £34.99 , we are able to offer these beautiful watches at just £17.99 . |
| 30 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |