Example sentences of "[that] it [be] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 2 | It seems to me that it 's better to be an actor as far as the critics are concerned . |
| 3 | And , of course , you and Mr Sheldrake are so close to each other that it 's ridiculous to be in opposition . |
| 4 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't seem to believe that it 's possible to be a rogue and a good man at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 7 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 8 | So what difference will the fact that it 's likely to be phased out , make to farmers in Britain . |
| 9 | send it down to use yourself , but to be able to carry that through and to , to go on to , to be sincere , and I respect that it 's important to be sincere . |
| 10 | You tell me that it 's wrong to be happy . |
| 11 | The greatest relief about this particular World Cup , though , is that it 's unlikely to be overwhelmed by the media overkill that now inflicts virtually every major sporting event . |
| 12 | An overwhelming 95% of the mothers surveyed believe that it is up to each mother to decide to work or not , and 91% believe that it 's fine to be a working mother as long as the job fits in with their family commitments . |
| 13 | My point is , that it is better to be prudent than happy . |
| 14 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 15 | Think about this carefully and you realise that it is essential to be conscious of the clubhead throughout the swing . |
| 16 | Christians need to reflect from time to time on their faith , knowing that it is easy to be distracted from their calling to be disciples . |
| 17 | We have found that it is good to be factual and helpful on these occasions and that always one or two who live opposite , or round the corner or who know the building have been drawn in . |
| 18 | He says that it is good to be home again . |
| 19 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 20 | Whether the Ephesian disciples were Christians or not before Paul 's arrival — and the development of the story suggests that he finds they were not — Paul 's initial question still assumes that it is possible to be a believer in Jesus without receiving fully the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | Girke 's paintings have a similar quality , and this is what I want to show : that it is possible to be reductive and constructive but also emotional ’ . |
| 22 | Allowing for the utmost frankness and lack of embarrassment possible with the individual client , it might be pointed out that it is possible to be too bright and breezy . |
| 23 | " Alarmist and badly educated people " , he wrote , " do not understand that it is possible to be an outright enemy of the entire contemporary order without being a liberal " . |
| 24 | As such , it is alleged that it is appropriate to be dealt with on the basis of qualified majority voting . |
| 25 | The second major innovation incorporated in the GCSE is that it is supposed to be marked by ‘ criteria reference ’ rather than ‘ norm reference ’ . |
| 26 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 27 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |
| 28 | This at least can not be true , that it is proper to be the cause of avoidable ill … this at least is dogma . |
| 29 | Moreover , just like racism and sexism , it is so engrained within the structure of social life that it is unlikely to be challenged effectively by rational argument or appeals to the more philanthropic side of human nature . |
| 30 | Sometimes the consultant feels that there is so much ambiguity regarding the appointment that it is unlikely to be successful as presently structured . |