Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Terry Eagleton of Oxford made the comment , er oh I think a year or two ago , in the Sunday Times that er there is too much established in the name William Shakespeare for anyone to be willing to fool around with it . |
| 32 | I 'd be willing to move out to , say , Richmond . |
| 33 | BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ . |
| 34 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 35 | They needed the worker to care about them , to be willing to sit down with them and help solve a problem and be a good listener . |
| 36 | ‘ Yes , this time I think I might be willing to go along with that , ’ Luke conceded drily , his gaze skimming the new lushness of her mouth . |
| 37 | As I have made clear , for some time the question of recognising Yugoslav republics , especially Croatia and Slovenia , has not been a matter of principle — clearly they will not be willing to go back into any entity called Yugoslavia . |
| 38 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 39 | A factor , by contrast , will usually be willing to advance up to 80% of the value of invoices immediately , with the remainder , minus its fee and interest , when the client 's customer settles his bill . |
| 40 | They are reported to be willing to contribute up to $2 million for the South Pacific leg of the cruise . |
| 41 | Darlington council 's town twinning officer , Michelle Le Neveu , approached a dairy wholesaler asking if milkmen would be willing to help out with a door to door collection . |
| 42 | She would be willing to pay up to £750,000 for it . |
| 43 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 44 | ‘ Since you 're having Suzie 's trail pursued with such vigour , perhaps it would be sensible to stay on until my hotel reservation lapses . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ There will obviously be some slimming down in certain areas , which is regrettable but necessary . ’ |
| 46 | And at training Paul Gascoigne upstaged that prank after being warned there could be some standing around in chilly weather . |
| 47 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 48 | And she would be free to escape back to her own life and sanity once more . |
| 49 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 51 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 52 | A control freak might be interesting to play around with , he was thinking , especially in his weakened condition — get her so far along , and then she 'd almost certainly want to do all the work . |
| 53 | But a role reversal might be interesting to start off with . |
| 54 | So do not be afraid to hold on to impressions that logically seem to cancel one another out . |
| 55 | If your conscience allows you to say that you really are stuck at some point do n't be afraid to pass on to the next paragraph . |
| 56 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 57 | Nevertheless , practically all the rules have exceptions and readers may feel that the rules are so complex that it would be easier to go back to the idea of learning the stress for each word individually . |
| 58 | There did n't seem to be much to get up for . |
| 59 | For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage ; for more experienced clients a shorter approach may be appropriate . |
| 60 | For some assignments with less experienced clients it will be appropriate to set out in detail and at some length the scope of the MAS and KPMG involvement at each stage . |