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 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ? |
| 22 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 23 | think there has to be a er family planning centres have to more on the street , I think family planning clinics have got the people there who are able to go out on the street . |
| 24 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 25 | Misunderstandings can arise as a result of this , when , for example , teachers see children who are able to run about in the playground with confidence , but seem unable to discriminate printed letters in their reading books . |
| 26 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 27 | In this way those candidates who recognise that they are unsuitable are able to drop out of the process early on . |
| 28 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 29 | While Judith , Rachel and Karen are sure their partners are happy to go along with the little alterations they try to make , Zelda says that interfering too much can prove to be very dangerous to a relationship . |
| 30 | The Government are remiss to press on in the face of careful and constructive opposition , which has been voiced by experts from the county of Leicester and other parts of the country . |