Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | They are right to say that . |
| 3 | The implication of all this is that large numbers of firms are unnecessary to achieve economic efficiency , and so it is equally possible for oligopolies to attain an efficient allocation of resources . |
| 4 | It is one of four units run by the agency , which comes under the Department of Social Security , which are due to close next month . |
| 5 | Its fabrication skills will be called on for later iterations of the chip , the 0.5 micron 603 , the 604 and the 300 Specmark-to-500 Specmark 620 , all of which are due to arrive next year . |
| 6 | The first inmates are due to arrive next month , and they 'll benefit from some of the best facilitites in Europe . |
| 7 | The first inmates are due to arrive next month , and they 'll benefit from some of the best facilitites in Europe . |
| 8 | Well I must stop now as the V.C.s are due to arrive any minute . |
| 9 | The mail system is also used to inform users when they are due to perform some administrative tasks , such as assessing proposed changes or endorsing SSRs . |
| 10 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 11 | Gary Pulsifer of Peter Owen informs me proudly that Owen authors Anne Cummin and Fiona Pitt-Kethley are due to appear naked on a Valentine 's Day broadcast on Channel 4 . |
| 12 | Pre-1974 ( Local Government re-organization ) Local Acts are due to expire 31st December , 1979 in Metropolitan areas and 31st December , 1984 elsewhere . |
| 13 | Optimism is highest among members of the Royal Scots — the world 's oldest infantry regiment , which received the lion 's share of medals for bravery in the Gulf War — and the King 's Own Scottish Borderers , which are due to become one regiment in 1994 . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp 's final R-series RISC-based Ultrix machines are due to ship next month . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp 's final Mips-based Ultrix machines are due to ship next month . |
| 16 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 17 | Tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy the magic of sculpture , and theatres like Show of Hands encourage those who are deaf to enjoy live theatre like everyone else . |
| 18 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 19 | Two Harwich-based firms , Bernard Uniforms and Mansped , are each to shed ten workers as the recession continues to hit the area . |
| 20 | Two giant reservoirs — the Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar in Madhya Pradesh — are each to hold more water than any others on the Indian sub-continent . |
| 21 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 22 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 23 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 24 | They want a shorter working week , but are prepared to sit long and late while they are in London . |
| 25 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 26 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 27 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 30 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |