Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists at the Met Office are prepared to go along with the US plan . |
| 2 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 3 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 4 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 5 | Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given . |
| 6 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |
| 7 | ‘ People on the estate are afraid to go out in the dark and even too afraid to open their doors . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's definitely a hands-on session — toddlers are free to leap about during the hour-long class . |
| 9 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 10 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 11 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
| 12 | There 's never been more public discussion of sexual abuse and the misery it causes , but there are still women who keep the bitter memories to themselves because they 're ashamed to speak out about the torment they 've been through . |
| 13 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 14 | They 've lived through history and know so much , which they 're certain to pass on to the rest of us . |
| 15 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 16 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 17 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 18 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 19 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 20 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 21 | A second area of concern about the effects of new technology has been centred around the question of what changes are likely to come about in the nature of those jobs that are left . |
| 22 | Unix System Labs and Open Software Foundation presidents Roel Pieper and David Tory are supposed to turn up at the roll-out in New York with signed technology exchange agreements in their hands . |
| 23 | Deane seems to have to problem of going to collect the ball on the wings and as a result he 's never in the centre when the ball comes across — I hope someone will tell him that centre forwards are supposed to hang around near the goal . |
| 24 | Miracles are supposed to fit in with the unscientific views of the ancients , but not with out own scientific views . |
| 25 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 26 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 27 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 28 | She imagined , for instance , that if the inhabitants of Arghuri had been unwilling to venture on to the mountain before the earthquake , any survivors would scarcely be ready to do so now . |
| 29 | Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world . |
| 30 | Individuals who are reluctant to go along with the sentiments expressed in a collective discussion may be castigated as unduly kaingli , ‘ jealous ’ , or kongit , ‘ possessive ’ , of their spouses , an infringement of the legitimate autonomy of the latter . |