Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [verb] [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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ People on the estate are afraid to go out in the dark and even too afraid to open their doors . ’ |
7 | And it 's definitely a hands-on session — toddlers are free to leap about during the hour-long class . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
10 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
11 | Oh , they 're all getting in on the act , are they ? thought Dalziel . |
12 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
13 | We 're all running down to the river like you said , they may not find us down there . |
14 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
15 | And we 're all going out on the field going come on , very good , we 're gon na beat your team , and we got our man and we scored about seven tries in the first three minutes . |
16 | I asked him , I said before we go any further , can you get these with the complete package and he said no , they 're all going back to the N H S typed thing because that 's the look , the look people want |
17 | All of them were chasing the duck but they 've all they 've all decided to stop for the moment , they 're all sitting down on the grass . |
18 | So there are a whole range of different origins to these particles but they 're all floating around in the sea water . |
19 | Sure , they 're all coming up on the bus from Mullingar/Limerick/Cork on Friday for the whole weekend . ’ |
20 | . They 're all coming down off the bloody erm . |
21 | They 're all weighed out with the saddle , weight cloths . |
22 | They 're all turning up at the Evesham Leisure Centre to learn circus skills . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | They 've lived through history and know so much , which they 're certain to pass on to the rest of us . |
26 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
30 | 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 . |