Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement . |
| 2 | What 's interesting to know is , what is the maximum value that that can attain ? |
| 3 | What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail . |
| 4 | I can illustrate County councils a dot blank here in eighty four eighty five an election year for county councils I E Essex County Council dot dot dot eighty nine an election year dot dot dot and ninety three you 'll all be er happy and delirious to know is a county council election year so next May Thursday county council elections will be held . |
| 5 | The question nobody seems able or willing to answer is when the ground attack may come . |
| 6 | the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain |
| 7 | the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain |
| 8 | ‘ Although the sales force is relatively small ’ , Harris said , ‘ one of the things that Adams has been careful to do is to focus the activity so that it would actually compete with the majors in its field of respiratory medicine ’ . |
| 9 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 10 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 11 | No thank you very much , Miss you are free to leave is you wish |
| 12 | Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel . |
| 13 | Whether we think the high price P M charged by a monopolist is a rip-off or the just reflection of what consumers are prepared to pay is a pure value judgement about equity . |
| 14 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 15 | Surely now just months before the Cornmill is due to open is the time to ensure the town 's assets such as easy town centre car parking are in good working order . |
| 16 | A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug . |
| 17 | Less easy to implement is the suggested ‘ coaching ’ in social skills , in which the poorly accepted child has specific instruction on how to interact with peers in a positive way . |
| 18 | what is sad to see is that a player like tony dorigo has not yet scored a goal this season and the same for kelly — that is : our wide defenders has not ( yet ) been a threat to the opposite team — which — if i rememeber correctly — did happen a couple of seasons back with both Love-Machine Sterland and Tony getting the occasional goal . |
| 19 | Inside the mouse 's body , of course , the poison that made it so easy to catch is still present and can cause serious damage to the unfortunate cat . |
| 20 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 21 | A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured . |
| 22 | Central to service is the interaction between the member of staff and the customer and here lies a fundamental dichotomy — in many service industries such as hospitality , the employee who has the most important job of serving the customer is frequently the lowest paid , the most unskilled and the inexperienced and with the highest labour turnover . |
| 23 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |
| 24 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |
| 25 | Less easy to determine is precisely what impact the newcomers , a familiar mixture of trade union officials and members of the teaching profession , would have on the political hue of the parliamentary party . |
| 26 | Well it 's easy to change is n't it ? |
| 27 | However , we think an exception should be made with regard to the Face-to-Face article with a Pensions Secretary , namely Mr Ian W Ferrier , who we are delighted to say is still a pensioner . |
| 28 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 29 | One measure which is relatively easy to make is the citation rate per paper ( Martin & Irvine 1983 ) . |
| 30 | The region from which it is not possible to escape is called a black hole , and its boundary is called the event horizon . |