Example sentences of "be [adj] to [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought that overreaction would at least be preferable to the apathy currently being shown by both the government and general public alike . |
| 2 | But the poor had cause to be grateful to the railways too , in particular for their supplies of fresh fish . |
| 3 | However , since the study is conducted in an area known to most of the subjects it is important that the memories reported should be specific to the drive just completed rather than general knowledge about that area of Cambridge . |
| 4 | Dexter sometimes thought the superintendent took the need to be polite to the public too far . |
| 5 | Although Bush did not specify how much such assistance — which would be additional to the $203,000,000 already agreed — would amount to , some US officials suggested that it could measure more than $3,500 million over the next decade . |
| 6 | The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information . |
| 7 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 8 | Such a decision would be complementary to the steps already taken by the Chief Constable following the sectarian killings of the past few weeks . |
| 9 | In order to overcome these communications problems it is necessary to establish the amount of data which must be available to the designer so that he can perform a specific design function . |
| 10 | The bus will be open to the public today and tomorrow from 9.30am to 5pm . |
| 11 | because it is becoming increasingly difficult to be nice to the Conservatives particularly when you produce something like this |
| 12 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 13 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 14 | By virtue of the doctrine of privity of estate the assignee will be liable to the landlord only for breaches of covenant occurring while the lease is vested in it , and that is why a landlord will usually insist upon a direct covenant from the assignee to observe and perform the provisions of the lease during the residue of the term , as in clause 5.9.4 . |