Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 2 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
| 3 | Dr Mikulas Huba , head of the Slovak Parliamentary Committee for Nature and Environmental Protection , has accused the government of being prepared to sell off the entire Tatra range to Americans without formal authority . |
| 4 | Freud 's comment on dreams of exposure was , … the dream of nakedness demands our attention only when shame and embarrassment are felt in it , when one wishes to escape or to hide , and when one feels the strange inhibition of being unable to stir from the spot , and of being utterly powerless to alter the painful situation … |
| 5 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 6 | In picking their way through these priorities , local managers lacked the benefit of being able to rely on the NCC and SEAC working in harmony . |
| 7 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 8 | The relief of being able to talk about the problem at all will probably be of some comfort . |
| 9 | I also like the idea of being able to look through the window and see people walking by , a bit of activity . |
| 10 | Wright has such talent that he can become a much more exciting player than Lineker because he has the added bonus of being able to play with the ball as well as without it . |
| 11 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 12 | COLLEAGUES of were shocked to hear of the senior executive 's sudden death on February 17 at the age of 53 . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the most difficult matches we have ever been asked to play , ’ confided Sir Alf Ramsey in June , 1973 , his apprehension understandable despite being able to call upon the vast experience of Bobby Moore , Alan Ball and Martin Peters . |
| 14 | Radji of was disinclined to protest as the Shah wished . |
| 15 | Most of all she did n't like being too far from town to join a Brownie Guide Pack — and even now , when she looked like being able to get into the town , she could n't join the Brownie Pack ! |
| 16 | Many customers like being free to move around the store |
| 17 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 18 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 19 | He despised her coarseness in being able to sleep with the light on . |
| 20 | The loyalty and discipline of the Khmer Rouge troops springs from something much deeper — the pride of the warrior in being able to survive in the forest , fighting against foreign enemies . |
| 21 | If the hon. Gentleman had his way and we had an independent Scotland , we would have four votes instead of 10 and our influence in being able to fight for the interests of Scotland 's farmers would be less . |
| 22 | In being prepared to lend to the discount houses or to buy bills from them , the Bank of England is the ultimate guarantor of sufficient liquidity in the monetary system and is known as lender of last resort . |
| 23 | It is a fact of life , however , that membership by graduation is not mandatory before being able to work in the credit management profession , unlike accountants and others . |
| 24 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 25 | It has been found in practice to be easy to explain to the lay client and easy for such a client to comprehend . |
| 26 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 27 | Solutions to the Ferranti crisis are not going to be easy to find despite the way in which the company has been inundated with offers of help . |
| 28 | • The Liberal Democrats , said to be anxious to climb on the green bandwagon , are proposing an Animal Protection commission with varying responsibilities from farmyard animals to goldfish in petshops . |
| 29 | He had become increasingly unhappy about the trackway theory , feeling it to be insufficient to account for the number of leys which seemed to exist , the tendency for parallel systems , the intersection of many leys at a single site , and the phenomenon which he discovered of patterns of concentric circles . |
| 30 | In most cases , however , this appears to be insufficient to account for the amount of subsidence observed . |