Example sentences of "be [adj] to do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 2 | She feels people in Scotland who have lost their jobs are not so eager to find work because wages are low , whereas in the States people are prepared to do two or three part-time jobs to support themselves . |
| 3 | The world is full of unlovely places and we should even be grateful that people are prepared to do important work in uncongenial surroundings like prisons , operating theatres , field hospitals , soap factories , coal-mines , and sewage farms . |
| 4 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 5 | Most empiricists , for example , have been prepared to do this with secondary qualities , such as colours , sounds and smells , which , they believe , science could not allow to the external world . |
| 6 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 7 | The South Koreans offer cheaper materials and are willing to do more of the grunt work than Americans or Europeans are . |
| 8 | Pedantic people are prone to do this with minor typing errors or spelling mistakes . |
| 9 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 10 | erm yes , obviously it has to be an individual decision on people 's parts , how you know whether they feel they 're prepared to do that . |
| 11 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 12 | Apparently they 're supposed to do two curacies before they get one of their own , but this chap was a bit of a favourite of the Bishop and the Bishop is patron of the living . ’ |
| 13 | With training what you 're supposed to do all the time ? |
| 14 | Yeah and we 're supposed to do all of them |
| 15 | and then they 're supposed to do some work with the form teacher talking about where the strengths and weaknesses li , you know again . |
| 16 | Now , nobody er er , a at this stage at the er Financial Resources Committee er , challenge us on this figure , I think we will just stage of of doing arith arithmetic of adding it up , but no doubt that the staff will be comparing what going to be , er what within a but have prepared for next year with what we 're supposed to do this year and ours is an increase of another percent . |
| 17 | As women , we 're able to do that weaving and keep the ball afloat and we 're learning to have a different sort of peer group . |
| 18 | You 're able to do all sorts of things in the sky . |
| 19 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 20 | But , according to trading standards officers , shops can charge what they like for something and if they choose to recoup the cost of making curtains by charging more for the cost of raw materials they use , then they 're entitled to do this . |
| 21 | General checklists or weighting systems not based on such an understanding are likely to do more harm than good . |
| 22 | A possible change , still to be approved by the Committee and the AGM , is that Vic Smith and I are likely to do this job jointly in future . |
| 23 | tried to do joined writing , apparently we are supposed to do that as teachers , actually said got ta put their primary on primary education , it says sit down and write a poem in joined up writing and look at your own writing and before you try to teach it to children make sure that you know |
| 24 | If the company are unwilling to do this , the accountant , possibly with the assistance of a computer bureau , will generally be happy to get this done . |
| 25 | If you are unwilling to do this , you are unlikely to get more of it . |
| 26 | Whatever happens , the TV viewer of the future looks likely to be presented with a bewildering array of alternative television systems , that are unlikely to do much for the sales of HDTV or any other wide-screen television . |
| 27 | Where there are no established rules to guide decision we must make a direct judgement as to what will have the best consequences , concentrating on the more immediate and those we are personally most motivated to promote , as the remote future is highly unpredictable and we are unlikely to do much to promote what is not personally inviting . |
| 28 | Answer guide : In this case it would seem that for the cars they should be depreciated over four years as they are unlikely to do 60,000 miles . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , companies are unlikely to do any financial favours just because you 're young . |
| 30 | Since governments are unlikely to do this over the long term , this will not be a long-term source of excessive monetary growth . |