Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wilson added : ‘ When many of the developments were being built tenants associations and public representatives pointed out that publicly-owned areas were prone to vandalism but it was never envisaged they would be subject to such official neglect . |
| 2 | Korda Marshall at RCA does not believe they will be true to their word . |
| 3 | They had the power of constriction , and Anne guessed they would be sticky to the touch . |
| 4 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |
| 5 | The eleventh paragraph recommended that the buildings should be laid out according to a plan , and the ‘ very able and magnificent block plan , by M. Crepinet , may furnish valuable hints towards preserving the desired unity ’ , and the twelfth paragraph said that a residence for the Foreign Secretary was not an absolute necessity , and if reception rooms were to be provided they should be available to every minister . |
| 6 | Medical researchers believe they could be close to pinning down the cause of hereditary asthma . |
| 7 | I have never cared much for men who are all man : they are the ones who smugly believe they must be irresistible to me , and take elaborately cautious steps to protect their priceless male virginity from what they seem to imagine will be my marauding hands . |
| 8 | They feel they could be closer to the turth , if things had happened faster . |
| 9 | Videotaped interviews should only be excluded if admitting them would be contrary to the interests of justice . |
| 10 | One particularly successful firm said that LEDU officials suggested that they relocate in Antrim , and that if they did they would be open to considerably more funding . |
| 11 | For those who think they may be sensitive to synthetic chemicals , the only sound method of diagnosis is to avoid chemical exposure as much as possible and see if the symptoms improve . |
| 12 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 13 | Club managers are now hoping they will be entitled to an extra hour 's opening when the clocks go back in October . |