Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope I shall be equal to the challenge . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sure I shall be equal to the challenge , though . ’ |
| 3 | I shall be open to the prayer of listening to God . |
| 4 | After the first 26 weeks , you may be entitled to the widowed mother 's allowance if you have dependent children . |
| 5 | You may be unsympathetic to the transcendental or spiritual interpretations of reality in the writings I have just cited : that does n't matter . |
| 6 | You must be used to the way men react to you . |
| 7 | If their incomes are low — if , for example , a student nurse has a low income — there will be no difficulty ; she will be able to claim social security benefit , so there is no reason why she should be entitled to the exemption available to other students . |
| 8 | Fourth , the argument can not be rejected on the similar grounds that it argues directly from the fact that you might be wrong to the conclusion that you do not know . |
| 9 | ‘ You know she 'll be dead to the world . |
| 10 | But I suppose espec , like if you got really really good grades you 'd be different to the group . |
| 11 | In a separate move , the chairwoman of the new trust has said she would be open to the possibility of the trust co-opting a representative from the teaching departments involved at Yorkhill on to the board . |
| 12 | To summarise , he felt that ( 1 ) a minority of mountain bike riders cause damage to the land and ( 2 ) that therefore you would be opposed to the idea of the path — ‘ the majority must suffer for the misbehaviour of a minority ’ . |
| 13 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 14 | He or she will be sensitive to the negotiated status of those truth claims ; and will be aware that the truth claims are claims , subject to dispute by the disciplinary community in its continuing conversations . |
| 15 | If you need to contact a local number , you will be subject to the same conditions as everyone else . |
| 16 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 17 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that we should be grateful to the vast majority of staff who work in children 's homes and who deal daily with children who , almost by definition , are difficult and disturbed . |
| 18 | But perhaps we should be thankful to the Duchess . |
| 19 | Secondly , related to this , we must be sensitive to the development of quite distinct working-class strategies , designed above all to preserve family structures in the new conditions of urbanisation and industrialisation . |
| 20 | we 'd be open to the Russians and all this sort of thing , it was really trying to frighten ya , what this soap box image he tries to give you know , a one man show , it 's bloody path it 's his voice |
| 21 | What had been said was we would be open to the poss I ca n't remember now the exact words he used , but |
| 22 | Videotaped interviews should only be excluded if admitting them would be contrary to the interests of justice . |
| 23 | Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint . |
| 24 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 25 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 26 | They may be hostile to the global capitalist system and feel that they and Nigeria are victims of exploitation within it . |
| 27 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 28 | Yes … high earners will get bigger fines … but they may be disproportionate to the offence . |
| 29 | The train was slowing slightly ; they must be close to the station . |
| 30 | For such methods to gain widespread acceptability they must be comparable to the Parsonnet system in ease of implementation . |