Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trent knew that he was insufficiently important to be the target so there had to be linkage . |
| 32 | He was vulnerable now , Charlotte sensed , more vulnerable than he was ever likely to be again . |
| 33 | He was less inclined to be so , it seemed , about private matters . |
| 34 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
| 35 | ‘ He was very unlucky to be dropped after the Old Trafford Test last year , ’ said Emburey . |
| 36 | Perhaps he was reclusive — his manner denied that and yet he was very reluctant to be sought out by local society , some of which , Mary judged , was quite worthy of him . |
| 37 | But he was very happy to be so near the hills because he loved them . |
| 38 | In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’ |
| 39 | He was almost fun to be with at times . |
| 40 | Some critics suggested that he was more concerned to be vindicated by posterity than to achieve actual results . |
| 41 | She noticed that he continued to work , apparently unaware that he was entirely unsuited to be a dogsbody , and stifled a sigh . |
| 42 | Although he was initially delighted to be a father , Keith was totally unable to cope with the responsibility and came and went in their relationship as he pleased , giving little help or support . |
| 43 | Nigel 's case , for which he was fully prepared to be imprisoned if necessary , rested on four points : |
| 44 | Whereupon Mr Gamage himself appeared and stated that he was fully prepared to be shot in the hand from close range , in the full view of the court , in order to defend his honour and his business interests . |
| 45 | He was sufficiently well-informed to be able to declare that it was a scandal that the town lacked any kind of orchestra , whereas Clara would have taken the lack of it as a simple act of God . |
| 46 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 47 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 48 | Until last month , Kenyon was music critic of the Observer , in which role he was as ready to be critical of his new paymaster as any other critic . |
| 49 | He knew when he was beaten , but it was clear to his wife that he was still reluctant to be obliged to his brother-in-law . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , his allegiance did not suddenly evaporate and by 1869 , on the eve of his departure for Basle , he was still happy to be the central member of a small circle of devotees . |
| 51 | He was too young to be awarded a pilot 's certificate , but on November 16 he flew the Farman under the watchful eyes of Royal Aero Club observers and was granted pilot 's certificate No 368 . |
| 52 | He was too drunk to be driving , he thought , angling a glance at her wide , sloping thighs on the seat beside him . |
| 53 | One school of thought argued that he was too good to be true and his information was deliberately fed to the West by a faction within the Kremlin who opposed Khrushchev 's plan to send missiles to Cuba . |
| 54 | He was too innocent to be a stalking horse . |
| 55 | He was too scared to be otherwise . |
| 56 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 57 | At first Jane could hardly understand a word Mervyn said , but he was too good-humoured to be offended . |
| 58 | But he was too old to be Jonathan Reeves . ’ |
| 59 | The young man with her was neither of the men who had temporarily lent her their names : too young to be a discarded husband , he was too old to be a son . |
| 60 | He was too old to be called up ( a lost generation of men who were too young for the first war , too old for the second ) . |