Example sentences of "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 | 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 . |
| 11 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Miracles are supposed to fit in with the unscientific views of the ancients , but not with out own scientific views . |
| 18 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 19 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 20 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 21 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |
| 22 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 23 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 24 | Regional Railways , Cheshire County Council and the European Regional Development Fund are all contributing along with the PTE , to the £10 million cost . |
| 25 | They are all growing up with the computer effortlessly . |
| 26 | Companion stuff from the new album — a gloriously lolloping ‘ Step It Up ’ , the pre-packed next single ‘ Ground Level ’ — rubs slick shoulder with pre-acceptance vintage like ‘ Lost In Music ’ , and the show goes on and on until people are dripping off the walls , and the last kind of urban excitement we need is a joke security alert on Charing Cross Road , which means we are all shepherded out of the Marquee 's tradesmen 's entrances like nuisances , sticking to each other and sapped of claustrophobic dancenergy . |
| 27 | ‘ The queers are all coming out of the closet after last year 's legislation , ’ Adam said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ? |