Example sentences of "am [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ? |
| 2 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 3 | I am willing to fail any dope test be it verbal , non-verbal , as long as it 's after this year 's London Marathon . |
| 4 | I am prepared to criticise that action when taken by a Conservative council . |
| 5 | However , conditional on the points raised below , I am prepared to render this fee only if you are successful in receiving a formal offer of funding . |
| 6 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 7 | Of course this would be easier for you — a middle-aged man is more likely to find someone attractive than a middle-aged woman — but if I am prepared to accept this disadvantage , why should you grumble ? |
| 8 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 9 | The President accepted his scrap of twisted limb with a gracious smile and said , on Susan 's advice , ‘ I am delighted to receive this gift which I see as a symbol of the cultural and commercial interdependence of the planets . |
| 10 | I am delighted to accept those congratulations , not least on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary , who have spearheaded the campaign . |
| 11 | I am delighted to commend this booklet to you which I hope will give you a flavour of the variety and interest available to solicitors in local government . |
| 12 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 13 | Being an ex-Hamble aircraft , I am glad to say that G-ARJU , the example flown for this article , has civilised elevator and rudder trims . |
| 14 | I am glad to confirm that fact . |
| 15 | Asked if she agreed , he said : ‘ I am supposed to direct this operation . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am likely to need another goalkeeper for next season if Marples joins another club and I want to see if Key fits the bill . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Am I-going to get that film undeveloped ? ’ |
| 18 | I am unable to derive any assistance from the provisions relating to administrators on the question of administrative receivership . |
| 19 | I am unable to accept this interpretation of the judgment . |
| 20 | I for my part am unable to accept this submission . |
| 21 | Mr. Beazley suggested that to do this would be adopting an isolationist attitude , but I am unable to accept this submission , particularly since Schedule 4 itself is a modified version of its counterpart in the Brussels Convention , which has been adapted in substantive respects to fit United Kingdom requirements , e.g. , by the addition of the last 12 words to article 5(3) , and by the insertion of the entirely new article 5(8) on which Mr. Beazley relies in the present case . |
| 22 | I am unable to accept this argument . |
| 23 | I am unable to accept this argument , whether it is applied to the contravener himself or to persons ‘ knowingly concerned . ’ |
| 24 | At its most extreme ‘ I can not change ’ can describe a sense of complete impotence — ‘ I am unable to make any difference to my own or anybody else 's life . ’ |
| 25 | As chairman of probably the oldest and certainly the noisiest of the Institute 's technical committees , I am able to reassure such doubters ; indeed , the Technical Advisory Committee 's advice is still the foundation of most Institute responses on accounting and auditing matters . |
| 26 | Luckily I am able to correct these mistakes , which is just as well because we face prosecution from the Trading Standards Office after complaints about our programme for the Clansford clash . |
| 27 | I am happy to see these names included . |
| 28 | I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected . |
| 29 | ‘ I am happy to do any job for Graham Taylor , and it 's nice to have the likes of Peter Beardsley praising my ability and fighting my corner , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I am happy to discount that possibility , together with many other stories which appear in the education press and which are represented as the Government 's view . |