Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] be " 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 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 3 | What 's interesting to know is , what is the maximum value that that can attain ? |
| 4 | What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail . |
| 5 | After all , the kinds of films that they wanted to see and the conditions that they were prepared to accept were now generally appreciated . |
| 6 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The question nobody seems able or willing to answer is when the ground attack may come . |
| 9 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 10 | Careful to avoid being declared a fugitive , Coleman had kept up the fortnightly calls to his pre-trial services officer in Chicago , reporting truthfully but contriving to leave his precise whereabouts in doubt . |
| 11 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 12 | Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’ |
| 13 | There are a few people willing to help are n't . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Something like 30 per cent of the contracts the MoD is prepared to let are now operated by contract caterers , and those include facilities management as well as pure catering . |
| 18 | An order-driven system is one in which prices at which buyers and sellers are prepared to deal are displayed ( the existing system is quote driven ) . |
| 19 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | No thank you very much , Miss you are free to leave is you wish |
| 22 | Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel . |
| 23 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What they were not prepared to countenance was that ‘ the United States should redeem its unwanted dollars in goods , by undervaluing the dollar and thereby running a large and persistent export surplus : such a treatment was wholly unacceptable to export interests in Europe which would suffer the increased US competition ’ ( Tew , 1977 , p. 192 ) . |
| 26 | Too old to change are n't we ? |
| 27 | Too unsettled to have been a torturer . |
| 28 | The last thing Britain was prepared to entertain was insecurity of relay stations on the Chinese mainland . |
| 29 | Does he agree that those people in the House who advocate expenditure without saying how much they are prepared to spend are entirely unconvincing ? |
| 30 | What it was not prepared to tolerate was any questioning of the basic tenets of party and Government policy . |