Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
| 2 | I 've got to be careful off is use nine because sixty nine tend to go together do n't they ? |
| 3 | Moreover , the live food that all fish are particularly fond of is worms . |
| 4 | And the thing , the biggest thing that we 've been afraid of is death and the things that lead to death like sickness and like infirmity like weakness . |
| 5 | I 'm really afraid of being shit |
| 6 | Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus . |
| 7 | There 's nothing wrong with being friends — it 's only when you do summat selfish it 's wrong . |
| 8 | The only people they were not popular with were studio production crews . |
| 9 | The only part of the natural world that the US delegation to the Earth Summit seems to be interested in is beavers , and how best to build dams and systematically reinforce the logjams that others are striving to break down . |
| 10 | She 's fourteen and all she 's interested in is clothes . |
| 11 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 12 | The bank is unconcerned , however , about how good performance could be : all it is interested in is performance being good enough to make the loan fairly secure . |
| 13 | What I 'm really interested in is drama and art — there must be rehabilitation possibilities there . |
| 14 | What I 'm interested in is people thinking . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose so — all Satan 's interested in is food . |
| 16 | Later , after examining maps of the area , he may discover that what he is really interested in is Parliament Hill . |
| 17 | With seven matches to play , 16th-placed Bari are in trouble and Platt said : ‘ All I am interested in is Bari staying in Serie A. Three consecutive defeats have made the job harder , but I believe we will stay up , particularly if we beat Napoli at home . ’ |
| 18 | What I 'm interested in is ideas , and I did n't think much of his , or his opinions . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm interested in being part of a subversive band of people who live or die by what they put up in front of an audience . |
| 20 | If anyone would be interested in being part of a prayer support group for either of our link families could they please contact either Freda Kennedy or Bill Howieson . |
| 21 | because like I do n't know , but it seems like they 're , they 're they do n't , they 're not interested in being friends with you er it 's just like I wan na fuck you I do n't wan na I do n't really wan na talk to you |
| 22 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 23 | Voight came off the better of the two , because Fearless Frank ( originally called Frank 's Greatest Adventure ) was the more interesting in being Phil Kaufman 's debut as director , and having the author Nelson ( The Man with the Golden Arm ) Algren playing a gangster called Needles . |
| 24 | At the beginning of his tale , Mr Hingston points out that negligence over personal finance does not mean that he is unfitted to be Institute Treasurer . |
| 25 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 26 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 27 | That is why Bruno was prepared to be duke of Lorraine and archbishop at the same time . |
| 28 | She had behaved as if she was quite prepared to be Alain 's , and she could not think of any reply at all . |
| 29 | It is by being prepared to be people 's servants for Jesus ' sake so that the light may shine through to them . |
| 30 | I was prepared to be rock solid in my refusal to resign and in my insistence that he withdrew that damning memo . ’ |