Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
| 2 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 3 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 4 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 5 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 6 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 7 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
| 8 | We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances . |
| 9 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 10 | I think it would have been absurd to have imposed upon police authorities a uniform number |
| 11 | 8 Consider other forms of giveaway where products are unsuitable to offer as samples or gifts . |
| 12 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 13 | The cones are receptive to colour and to higher lighting levels . |
| 14 | Environmentalists are right to argue for strong controls on the way waste is managed . |
| 15 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
| 16 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 17 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
| 18 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
| 19 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 20 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 21 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 22 | They are right to do so , because it can lead to serious problems if it persists . |
| 23 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 24 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 25 | Tyacke 's critics are right to point out that he and other historians have been too preoccupied with the theological disputes within the academic communities of pre-civil war England . |
| 26 | These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality . |
| 27 | Considerations like these make scientists feel that they are right to take a philosophically realist view of the results of their researches ; to suppose that they are finding out the way things are . |
| 28 | I believe that we are right to wait until the independent report has been received , but I assure my right hon. Friend and the House that all EC partners who have worked well together on this are carefully considering future relations in the light of what appears to have happened , as shown on the video which so many of us have seen and which the families of the people involved have had to witness in their suffering . |
| 29 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 30 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |