Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 3 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 4 | Keeping some sort of balance is something I suspect to be close to the corporate heart of Switchboard , though usually unspoken . |
| 5 | This portion of the ocean 's surface was also inhabited by storm petrels , but of a distinct species from any I had hitherto observed , and which I believe to be new to science . |
| 6 | But I try to be indifferent to the slurs of face , pointedness of nose . |
| 7 | But I try to be indifferent to the slurs of my enemies . |
| 8 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |
| 9 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 10 | I wished to be charitable to the boy , my lord . |
| 11 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 12 | I will not because I am aware of the time and I wish to be fair to other hon. Members . |
| 13 | I have to be loyal to the decision of Parliament , which passed the War Crimes Act 1991 . |