Example sentences of "are [adj] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cancer may take decades to develop , and we know that if we are prepared to make certain changes in how we live , we can help to protect ourselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The second part of the festival , which resulted in the final performance , raised vital questions about the way women relate to one another when they are free to make real choices . |
| 7 | In a partnership the partners are free to make any arrangement they like which would be lawful between private persons . |
| 8 | ‘ the parties are free to make any arrangements which they like dealing with the subject matter of costs ; and it seems to me to make no difference whether that agreement is made before or after the court takes the matter into its consideration . |
| 9 | In response to our telephone conversation on Friday , I write to confirm that we are willing to make available two copies of the tape to support the joint responses at Vassar and CNRS Marseille . |
| 10 | In response to Nancy 's telephone call last Friday , I write to confirm that we are willing to make available two copies of the tape to support the joint research at Vassar and CNRS Marseille . |
| 11 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 12 | ‘ The gigs we enjoy best are when the audience are willing to make total assholes of themselves and go really goofy . |
| 13 | ‘ The gigs we enjoy best are when the audience are willing to make total assholes of themselves and go really goofy . |
| 14 | ‘ I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort . ’ |
| 15 | If you are the sort of person who needs to go to the lavatory when you are nervous make sure you know where it is . |
| 16 | This typically Horatian conundrum begets English readings that agree slightly to disagree : " Yet the moons are quick to make good their losses in the sky " ( a school textbook , Allcroft and Hayes , n.d . ) ; |
| 17 | If Christmas or the Summer holidays are approaching and people are likely to make bigger cash withdrawals , banks may decide to hold more liquid assets . |
| 18 | Good photographs are likely to make all the difference to your submission . |
| 19 | Marc Renault of Fimagest , a French fund manager , reckons 1993 's privatisations will also be aided by the fact that few French companies are likely to make big rights issues in the middle of a recession . |
| 20 | Colts and stallions are likely to make this face after smelling urine , but other horses occasionally do it too . |
| 21 | And what kind of attitudes can you learn to adopt that are likely to make this possible ? |
| 22 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 23 | Fairley argues that such conventions demand systematic investigation , since they constitute the core of the " literary competence " that educational institutions are supposed to make available for students . |
| 24 | However , when the regulations are published , even good schemes become a nightmare of complexity for those of us who are supposed to make sensible policy and for those to whom the schemes are supposed to apply . |
| 25 | Some of the greatest novels ever written , James 's ‘ great fluid puddings ’ , are hard to make much of in purely aesthetic or formalistic terms . |
| 26 | The changeability of political concerns and priorities means that governments are unwilling to make long-term commitments to compensate enterprises for carrying out public service objectives ( NEDO 1976 : 28 , 43 ) . |
| 27 | However , such committees , at the national level , are unlikely to make individual teachers feel involved . |
| 28 | But they are unlikely to make real progress unless they are helped to formulate their own ideas explicitly and then look for evidence and compare their views to those of others . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if you exercise less than twice per week , you are unlikely to make any noticeable fitness gains . |
| 30 | This was displayed as a ‘ work of art ’ to the visitor , who was invited to see and touch that area of space in which we live but are unable to make visible and tangible . |