Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The customers AT&T is keenest to serve are global firms wanting global services . |
| 2 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 3 | Intravenous magnesium and temporary atrial or ventricular pacing are initial choices of therapy . |
| 4 | Thus , the following pair of sentences The man was eager to please and The man was easy to please are alike in their surface structure but are different in their deep structure . |
| 5 | Species somewhat resembling that shown are numerous in the Tertiary marine formations , and similar species live today in sandy sea bottoms . |
| 6 | The worst to paint are insecure people , either outwardly or inwardly , ‘ you can feel that they are uncomfortable with themselves ’ . |
| 7 | Most likely to suffer are concrete block houses built in the Twenties and Thirties and earlier buildings where shuttered concrete was employed . |
| 8 | The problems this situation is likely to create are considerable . |
| 9 | These fry are ready to move on to a larger tank . |
| 10 | These get-togethers are great fun . |
| 11 | All aroun are armed cops , serial murders , hideous rapes , theft as an industry , the random abduction and dismemberment of strangers . |
| 12 | Each relates to safeguards and protections on issues which we all agree are serious for the project . |
| 13 | We must guard — especially at times of cost-cutting — against a bias in favour of those stories that we all agree are big . |
| 14 | It is extremely worrying that in non-diabetics half the cases of hypertension are undiagnosed , half those diagnosed are untreated and of the half that are treated half are inadequately controlled ( WHO Expert Committee on Hypertension , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | In Cleveland 13.2pc of people who are able to work are jobless compared to January 's figure of 13.3pc , or 280 people fewer than last month . |
| 16 | Inevitably , not all reports can be covered , and the summaries of those included are brief and highly selective . |
| 17 | Those shown are inadequate and confusing and if mentally accessible to walkers , would I 'm sure , prove a barrier to the inexperienced hoofer like myself . |
| 18 | What such a printer will not be able to handle are scalable fonts , that is the ability to choose a typeface and produce any size of type you require when you require it , nor will it be able to cope accurately with re-scaling object or draw-type graphics such as those produce by CAD or professional graphics applications . |
| 19 | The purpose should have been notified in advance so that those attending are able to assemble any information they need . |
| 20 | Given the essentially secret nature of much deviant behaviour , those involved are unlikely to be willing to be interviewed , or at least to give truthful answers , in a survey . |
| 21 | These stories are commonplace , although those involved are wary of going on record . |
| 22 | Out of a prison population of forty five thousand it does n't seem much , but those involved are quick to sing its praises . |
| 23 | How quickly , though , and whether there will be sufficient incentive to produce in bulk for countries which are unable to pay are different matters . |
| 24 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 25 | Well over half of those killed are young children or elderly people who are overcome by smoke and fumes while they sleep at night — people whose chances of survival would be drastically improved if only they were able to reach safety in time . |
| 26 | Most of those released are non-political prisoners convicted of criminal offences , but a number of prisoners of conscience will also be released . |
| 27 | If the records popular when the University first opened are recognisable to us , it 's only because they have recently enjoyed their third or fourth revival in the charts . |
| 28 | just added it up and sort of like if you take twenty , if you take an hour as being seven days , erm , twe , twe , twenty one hours , and what have you got the total there , three , eight , eleven , eleven and a half hours selling out of the whole of that , actual selling on your B M S , well they 'll give the things that we both disagree are important , and then you do get chance to do the selling what we 're predominately ; |
| 29 | It is interesting to make the obvious observation that , while the first and last named are fanatical behaviourists , believing that everything is subject to unlimited moulding and rearrangement through a process of reward and punishment , the three in the middle are fanatical instinctivists , insisting that virtually everything and anything is inherited , a gift ( or a grief ) of the genes and not subject to the environment . |
| 30 | Both at home and abroad , the intention is to ensure that the people who are entitled to vote are aware of that fact . |