Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end ! |
| 2 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 3 | They 've lived through history and know so much , which they 're certain to pass on to the rest of us . |
| 4 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 5 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 6 | locating which nights northern tracks operate and with Dungannon having already made great efforts to obtain Fridays — to move away from Saturday competition with Dunmore — the Oaks Park management are unlikely to take kindly to the idea of Friday racing at Ballyskeagh . |
| 7 | ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ? |
| 8 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 9 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 10 | It 's based on the equality of opportunity we talk about , that it should , no matter what your background , erm where you come from , as Marianne rightly says , you are able to get right to the top . |
| 11 | Staff are able to contribute instead to the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme or contribute to a personal pension scheme . |
| 12 | Many more people are able to contribute creatively to the solution of organisational problems than do so . |
| 13 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 14 | I am anxious to get back to the Forest of my own creation , my own memory , my own past and future hope . |
| 15 | When you are ready to go on to the next potency , the whole process is repeated with a single poppy seed granule of the desired strength . |
| 16 | Batch production can be relatively well planned and controlled , but queueing problems may arise when batches are ready to move on to the next operation . |
| 17 | Only the leading two candidates are entitled to go through to the second round . |