Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 2 | It 's awful to be last , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's better to be alone when the planes come . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 5 | You 've thought about it — for maybe a whole five seconds — but before you give him the thumbs up , runs these ten questions by him — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 6 | It 's better to be safe than sorry — especially at Christmas , as consultant microbiologist Dr Liz Scott tells promotions executive Elizabeth Ollier ( left ) in the BBC Good Food kitchen |
| 7 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 8 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 9 | He says that the message to doctors is : if there 's any suggestion of meningococcal meningitis use penicillin — it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 10 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 11 | It had been a fifty-fifty chance , but it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 12 | It 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 13 | Still ( Rule of Life No. 1 ) , it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 14 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 15 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 16 | It 's a continuing theme ; dance is fickle and chews up styles so quickly it 's possible to be last week 's thing when your work is still relevant : ‘ Electro was given a bad name by break-dancing , ’ reckons David . |
| 17 | But the good news is , with the aid of these space age products , it 's possible to be prettier than ever before . |
| 18 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 19 | I expect she kicks herself for giving him those special facilities now , because it 's sure to be one of those jaw-breaking pieces of unreadability Americans produce . |
| 20 | Then it 's sure to be true . |
| 21 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 22 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 23 | ’ We take all the obvious precautions security tags , chaining up the leather , keeping staff vigilant but at the end of the day , it 's impossible to be 100 per cent secure . |
| 24 | It 's impossible to be sure what fate befell the mightiest Orc Warlord of all time , but whatever became of him his reputation and memory lives on . |
| 25 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 26 | M. You seem to think it 's right to be wrong . |
| 27 | I was never any good at lecturing so it 's nice to be good at something . ’ |
| 28 | erm It keeps it going that way because you know , six games unbeaten , it 's nice , it 's nice to be unbeaten , but we just have n't won enough have we ? |
| 29 | Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’ |
| 30 | But it 's nice to be able to get an unexpected comment . |