Example sentences of "are [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 3 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 4 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 5 | ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If enough people are prepared to do something about it then rudeness and inefficiency could be decreased . ’ |
| 7 | You need to control the carrot and the stick , and only use them when you are prepared to put them into action . |
| 8 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 9 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 10 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 11 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 12 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 13 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 14 | Western practitioners who find the idea of putting a price on a kidney unethically distasteful might bear in mind that their fellow citizens are free to damage themselves for profit in other ways , and with medical approval . |
| 15 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 16 | Should you still feel dissatisfied you may personally bring your grievance to the notice of Personnel Management Division or you are free to raise it with your staff association or trade union who may take action on your behalf . |
| 17 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 18 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 19 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |
| 20 | The climate in the classroom must be one where children feel that their ideas are valued so that they are willing to commit themselves in public . |
| 21 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 22 | The British people are willing to pay something towards preserving an attractive landscape . |
| 23 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 24 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 25 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 26 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 27 | ‘ If you want a power-sharing executive , you are likely to blow it with the council , I said . |
| 28 | Market leaders Peugeot and Citroen are likely to hold plenty in stock . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that the sale agreement will treat income arising after the transfer date as belonging to the purchaser , the Inland Revenue are likely to treat it as income of the vendor . |
| 30 | The FA are appalled by Jones ' contribution and are likely to charge him with misconduct . |