Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] to have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry to have disappointed you . |
| 2 | Obviously we lose money if clubs start cancelling matches but we are fortunate to have alternative waters , ’ said Roger . |
| 3 | We are fortunate to have exact details of the type of education offered during this period , for in December 1817 James Moorhouse , a 13-year-old pupil at the School , wrote this letter to his Grandfather : |
| 4 | ‘ We 're delighted to have Norman with us today , ’ said Ann Walker , director of Action MS . |
| 5 | You 're supposed to have mashed potato or boiled potatoes . |
| 6 | I think it will be , there will now , we will go back to a subject specific report because we we 're obliged to have national curriculum details |
| 7 | Are there any principles of biology that are likely to have similar universal validity ? |
| 8 | Many readers of this series of books are likely to have recent experience of training courses . |
| 9 | Obviously most severely disabled persons are likely to have financial problems as they have either a limited earning capacity or even none at all . |
| 10 | Yet the overwhelming opinion is that a significant proportion of lung cancer deaths in the UK are caused by radon , and that people who are likely to have long exposure to high radon levels are at extreme risk . |
| 11 | Many of these people are likely to have serious psychiatric problems . |
| 12 | They suggest that schemas are likely to have separate effects on recognition sensitivity and response criterion bias and that these effects are confounded when researchers simply report hits and false alarms . |
| 13 | Yet in an organisation , which is effectively a large group , retention of power in this way by individuals can build up resentment and thus demotivate : ‘ Groups with very sharp perceived power differences between members are likely to have poor social-emotional climates … . |
| 14 | Every social worker knows that clients are likely to have multiple difficulties and that the problem presented may not be the main one . |
| 15 | Larger employers are likely to have internal appeals procedures and failure there , where union representation may have been provided , is the point at which the employee draws the line . |
| 16 | They are likely to have low self esteem , a low income or no money . |
| 17 | large corporations and organizations , such as are likely to have in-house language training services . |
| 18 | According to a report from the Building Research Establishment ( BRE ) , 28 per cent of privately rented homes are likely to have severe damp , with a further 19 per cent suffering from ‘ slight ’ damp . |
| 19 | Now only some fifteen or twenty years later we would know that both partners in a marriage are likely to have important careers , and may well have decided that neither one of the two should be the ‘ lead operation ’ . |
| 20 | Various ‘ interest groups ’ in a conflict situation are likely to have different perspectives on the nature of the situation itself , as well as on the particular issues that create it . |
| 21 | Politicians are likely to have different goals . |
| 22 | For one thing it takes into account the fact that people in different social circumstances are likely to have different views and different opinions ; the sample is chosen so that the more salient features and differences that are thought to exist are proportionately represented . |
| 23 | The Rome nosology is a step towards better understanding of functional gastrointestinal disorders because the disparate syndromes are likely to have different causes and treatments . |
| 24 | All it is , is where the head of the femur is not correctly positioned in the hip socket and the proper name for the hip socket , you 'll see in your books is acetabulum This is definitely a condition which is familiar as a fam a family tendency and if you think about it if you have a , a , a big hip socket your children are likely to have big hip sockets it 's a family |
| 25 | A week or more after writing , you are likely to have sufficient detachment to examine your work as a reader , rather than as its writer . |
| 26 | Such changes are likely to have fundamental effects upon the way companies operate , and so consideration must be given to the impact of developments upon product-costing , cost control and investment appraisal — concepts already discussed as central to the corporate resource-allocation process . |
| 27 | Educational psychologists also work with children under school age who are likely to have special educational needs when they do start school , usually those children with a severe , or early-diagnosed , difficulty . |
| 28 | Culminations of hanging wall complexes over footwall ramps appear to be promising sites for hydrocarbon accumulation , and are likely to have seismic , gravity , and magnetic expression . |
| 29 | This is because no two patients are likely to have identical injuries , and large groups of patients are even less likely to be homogenous . |
| 30 | He has written a scientific paper in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that says you are likely to have significant long-term reductions in minor health problems if you acquire a dog . |