Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is often the more awkward because owners of country houses are hesitant to protest when they realize that other options may bring the new road much closer to the houses of neighbours . |
| 2 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 3 | There is a captive audience , most of whom can understand the relevance of the message , and many are prepared to participate as they await their flight . |
| 4 | I am interested to note that they have not unscrewed the fingerplates from his doors . |
| 5 | In considering such reports and recommendations , the Houses are free to decide as they wish and it is not unknown for them to divide along party lines where there are party political implications involved . |
| 6 | We guarantee nothing — wild birds are free to go where they wish and , though we can give them the best possible conditions , we can never be certain that they will stand in front of a hide ! |
| 7 | The session should provide information on any restrictions placed on women including whether they are free to travel as they please and allowed to work . |
| 8 | The minimalist interpretation maintains that they are willing to obey if they have no judgment of their own on the merits of performing the required action . |
| 9 | There is no limit to the wants we can express in language and hence we may well set up problems that are impossible to solve because they require the resolution of contradictions . |
| 10 | Thorndyke argued that such stories are easy to remember because they have a particular structure . |
| 11 | These ‘ soft companies ’ are easy to start because they need little in the way of capital or staff , and they are less prone to failure than companies oriented toward ‘ hard ’ products . |
| 12 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 13 | But the ‘ Boks set so much more store on scrummaging , looking to destroy the opposition if they can , that they 're reluctant to change until they have to . |
| 14 | I must admit they 're lovely to cuddle because they do curl up into a ball . |
| 15 | At least half of these are likely to die before they reach a year old . |
| 16 | German chancellor Helmut Kohl wants 18 more members to represent the former East Germany and the 12 heads of states are likely to agree if they get more representation too . |
| 17 | For , if pressed , many are likely to say that they feel more in common with others in the same discipline in other institutions — even on the other side of the world — than with academics in the same institution but in different subjects . |
| 18 | Current product prices convey information to producers about the likely rewards of manufacturing a particular product and current factor prices ( wages , rents , interest ) the likely cost of producing the product as well as the returns which labour and capital are likely to receive if they provide their services . |
| 19 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
| 20 | The transition from ward to home is usually difficult , and patients are likely to relapse if they do not receive adequate support and supervision . |
| 21 | In his classic manual , Working Lads ' Clubs , Russell argued that the principal aim of clubs was ‘ to provide youths of the poorer classes with an opportunity of becoming happier , healthier , and better citizens than they are likely to become if they spend their leisure in loafing about the streets ’ . |
| 22 | People whose footballing loyalties lie elsewhere are welcome to join if they wish , but they should be prepared to accept forthright biased Leeds talk : it is , after all , a Leeds list . |
| 23 | There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes . |
| 24 | This is a very different situation from many churches today which meet in large buildings and with eclectic congregations , the members of which are unlikely to meet unless they plan to do so . |
| 25 | Then they become waterlogged and are unable to fly until they dry out . |
| 26 | Whatever procedure for dismissal is established must be seen as fair and just , so that governing bodies are able to demonstrate that they have acted reasonably . |
| 27 | ‘ They are able to choose whether they want baked beans or spaghetti for tea like everyone else . |
| 28 | This may be a group effort in which children are able to join as they wish and do as much or as little as they choose . |
| 29 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 30 | Being almost the colour of the rocks , the Harpies are difficult to spot before they move . |