Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 2 | I am delighted to welcome you to the University of Ulster . |
| 3 | Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read . |
| 4 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 5 | Once everybody gets to know The Afros , we 're gon' introduce 'em to the Baldhead Posse . |
| 6 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 7 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 8 | Regulation is an option , but creates additional problems of its own , which are unlikely to commend it to the authorities except in exceptional circumstances ( e.g. as part of a privatization programme involving natural monopolies ) . |
| 9 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 10 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 11 | Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations . |
| 12 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 13 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 14 | The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc . |
| 15 | If you decide to come here , be sure to look up the ACAUS chapter in your city and we will be glad to assist you to the extent we can . |
| 16 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 17 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 18 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 19 | She recommended that a meeting with Social Services would be helpful to alert them to the ‘ dynamics ’ of this family and to advise them that ‘ as professionals we were anxious that we had not managed to engage and intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
| 20 | Schools were started in the monasteries , for Charles proclaimed that ‘ Men of God should not only live by the rule and dwell in holy conversation , but should devote themselves to literary meditations , each according to his ability , that they may be able to give themselves to the duty of teaching others . ’ |
| 21 | Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future . |
| 22 | Whichever method you select you must be able to justify it to the company in order to recover your expenses . |
| 23 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 24 | You will send all your senior managers for the entire week of the event , and dole out shorter visits to deserving underlings , either those with long service records or those who might be able to learn something to the company 's advantage . |
| 25 | Ideally each should be able to offer something to the others , but for this to happen an agenda has to be clarified and values made explicit . |
| 26 | Once he hits on the right track he should be able to follow him to the place where he leaves the food and then watch who picks it up . |
| 27 | You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow . |
| 28 | Once we have landed on Mars we will be able to beam it to the galaxy , he said . |
| 29 | At first , you may still have accidents as you may not be able to get her to the potty in time , but she 'll gradually learn to hold on longer . |
| 30 | If he did , every honest man in London would be proud to report him to the police . |