Example sentences of "[conj] to [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orbitals in these compounds can be considered to lie predominantly on the metal ( or metals in a polynuclear species ) or on the ligands , or to be involved in metal-ligand interactions and so be shared between metal and ligand . |
| 2 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 3 | If a client proposes an asking price which appears unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement rather than to be involved in protracted negotiations which are likely to have little prospect of success . |
| 4 | I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training . |
| 5 | The English curriculum ought to help to overcome such snobbery by encouraging children to discuss their accents and to be proud of regional differences , but the task of overcoming arrogance about accents is formidable . |
| 6 | In addition , there has been strong support for the proposal to reduce the scope for intimidation and fraud by requiring strike ballots to be conducted by post and to be subject to independent scrutiny . |
| 7 | And to be European in southern England , is to make a political statement against Thatcherism , philistinism , and English insularity . |
| 8 | Moralists are , by definition , inclined to deal in absolutes and to be uncomfortable with pragmatic accommodation , but political leadership in the United States requires bargaining skills and , ‘ calls for actions such as compromise , renunciation , face saving of oneself , which are morally ambiguous or even downright immoral to people with morally rigorous standards . |
| 9 | Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way , and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race . |
| 10 | The ability to use library catalogues , both subject and author , including the important ability to articulate one 's subject interest in specific terms and to be aware of possible synonyms and related subjects . |
| 11 | BGS has to be ready at all times to supply the wants of the market for geoscience and to be aware of potential sources of income , marketing efforts , public relations and promotional activities will be focused more on the commercial sector . |
| 12 | Moreover , it may be occasional injectors , rather than regular injectors , who are the higher-risk group for spreading HIV , since casual injectors may be more inclined to share equipment than regular injectors , who are more likely to have their own ‘ set of works ’ and to be aware of safe cleaning procedures . |
| 13 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 14 | I want an inspectorate to have the ability to make comments and criticisms and to be free of direct government interference . |
| 15 | You need more than a bowl of water to solve your , to salve your conscience and to , and to be free from innocent blood . |
| 16 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 17 | She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies , or to feel insulted . |
| 18 | A reviewer of a hangman program recently suggested that the detail was so gruesome as to be unsuitable for young children ! |
| 19 | In addition , the spurs between the meanders preserve the general height of the plateau surface away from the river , except where they are so narrow as to be subject to general lowering by the formation of the slopes on either side . |
| 20 | While the Panel does not fall squarely within this category of body , its activities are considered by the courts to be sufficiently similar so as to be subject to judicial review . |
| 21 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 22 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |