Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 32 | I am sorry to be concerned , I do n't know what he wants to pour something down my throat and this is . |
| 33 | I am glad to be free again . |
| 34 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 35 | I am glad to be able to reach this conclusion . |
| 36 | I am glad to be able to participate in this debate . |
| 37 | I am glad to be able to enlighten the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , especially when he talks in terms of what has happened to the numbers of unemployed during Labour Governments . |
| 38 | I am glad to be able to contribute briefly to the debate on the Bill , although I can see that there will not be a meeting of the minds . |
| 39 | She recently wrote to me and I am glad to be able to respond more fully now than was possible in correspondence . |
| 40 | I am glad to be able to help the hospice in this small way . ’ |
| 41 | I am inclined to be witty . |
| 42 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 43 | I am prepared to be convinced that that is not the case and that the Government mean well and intend to try to open up educational opportunity to everyone , no matter their class background . |
| 44 | As you know , I am unable to be present at this meeting . |
| 45 | ‘ I am unable to be confident from Mr. Eliot 's writings , ’ iris Murdoch once reproachfully wrote in a theoretical defence of realism , ‘ that he has ever enjoyed and admired any novel . ’ |
| 46 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 47 | I am ashamed to be British ! |
| 48 | Now , seeing him solemn , distressed , his hands wet from wiping my plate , I am ready to be fellow creature again . |
| 49 | He said : ‘ I am lucky to be alive . ’ |
| 50 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 51 | ‘ Please tell her I 'm sorry she 's ill — but that I 'm pleased to be able to stand in for her . ’ |
| 52 | I 'm pleased to be able to answer my very first oral question . |
| 53 | I 'm due to be married next Easter , and my fiancé has just told me he likes dressing up in women 's clothes . |
| 54 | I 'm sorry to be late . |
| 55 | I 'm sorry to be pedantic Diana , but this is grammatically incorrect . |
| 56 | I was responsible for Community Programme for the last 18 months of its life , so I 'm delighted to be involved in introducing Community Action . |
| 57 | ‘ Yes , well , there are times when I 'm ashamed to be human if that 's what it means . ’ |
| 58 | Then I 'm happy to be able to surprise you . |
| 59 | After this , I 'm glad to be able to praise a fluid but unhurried Jeux d'eau that is well served , too , by the velvety-rich recorded sound . |
| 60 | I 'm glad to be able to help , even in a small way . ’ |