Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 The three questions in the centre concern the proper focus of RE , attending to what religious people may consider to be central to religion : the questions of definition , integrity and truth .
2 ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client .
3 Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) .
4 In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored .
5 You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly .
6 They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’
7 the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and
8 In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance .
9 And though many knew him , few could claim to be close to the peaceful , white-haired old man .
10 You 'd have to be irresponsible to yourself . ’
11 And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business .
12 Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp .
13 If they could learn to be civil to each other , maybe even friendly , it would make it very much easier to walk away from him when this was all over .
14 The practice would need to be able to accurately check the blood glucose , weigh the patient , examine the eyes and record the results .
15 This too would necessitate a new political system where traditional party politics would need to be subordinate to a national will for reform and the consequent reduction of democratic rights .
16 It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) .
17 It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue .
18 This would appear to be unique to man .
19 For example , it would appear to be open to the senior officer to inform the organisers of the meeting in question that the numbers of the meeting are too great , and require the organisers of the meeting to assist the police in dispersing the mob .
20 The husband would appear to be liable to capital gains tax on any increase in value of his share of the former matrimonial home between the date of the transfer into settlement and the date of the deferred sale .
21 As they are for the most part Gaelic-speaking folk , it is difficult to learn from themselves much of their true circumstances ; but there are friends in Portree who would gladly assist any soul who would like to be helpful to the dwellers on Stormy Hill .
22 They would like to be able to be caring within limits , and without the fear that they might get overwhelmed or taken for a ride .
23 I I would hope to be able to party conference probably only which would mean turning up either Friday night or Saturday morning .
24 Since the accommodation would be occupied all year round , the standard would have to be similar to that required for permanent occupation .
25 For Sam 's sake , she would have to be pleasant to — to —
26 And after his heroics , Warne said : ‘ It would have to be close to the best I 've ever bowled .
27 The person she would have to be nice to , for Sam 's sake , was their brother Daniel .
28 Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature .
29 I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food .
30 Obviously , whatever plan was developed would have to be sensitive to regional differences , whether in demographic terms , or in incidence of particular illnesses , or local cultural or political values .
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