Example sentences of "have [indef pn] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 2 | In the European scheme of things , England has nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 3 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 4 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 5 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 6 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 7 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 8 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 9 | The dead had nothing to be frightened of any more , and there was nothing to fear from them . |
| 10 | ‘ Luney , now you must answer me truthfully , you 've nothing to be afraid of . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've nothing to be afraid of . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you 've nothing to be afraid of . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've nothing to be ashamed of , ’ he said . |
| 14 | From that moment Pollyanna had nothing on us : we always had something to be glad about . |
| 15 | Dad had a soft spot for Auntie Nellie and perhaps Mum had something to be jealous about . |
| 16 | I do n't think I 'd be going to court if I had anything to be concerned about . |
| 17 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |
| 18 | The Government have nothing to be proud of over that period . |
| 19 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 20 | ‘ We have nothing to be ashamed of , ’ he stated , clinical in his delivery . |
| 21 | THEY may be cheap , but Europe 's discount food stores have plenty to be cheerful about . |
| 22 | They have plenty to be angry about . |
| 23 | I feel we have something to be proud of here . |
| 24 | President Michael Jones said : ‘ At last it looks as though home owners and estate agents have something to be cheerful about . ’ |
| 25 | President Michael Jones said : ‘ At last it looks as though home owners and estate agents have something to be cheerful about . |