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Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] to [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In societies where there is a strong emphasis on certain goals , but where the means for obtaining them are unavailable to most citizens , the result is a situation of anomie ; a situation , in other words , where the rules and standards governing behaviour have lost their influence and force and are liable to be ignored , and where shared norms or rules no longer determine and direct behaviour .
2	Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically .
3	This , coupled with the fact that they are also relatively low paid , means that many of them are unattractive to many of the unemployed .
4	Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey .
5	As I am new to this post I am not sure whether we sent you copies of new Community Care leaflets when they were first produced so I now enclose a set for your information .
6	‘ I am grateful to all those who fed back their comments after the recent cascade .
7	Statutory public consultations have been carried out and I am grateful to all those who responded .
8	I am grateful to both the hon. Member for Wellingborough ( Mr. Fry ) and the Minister for their generosity in allowing me to contribute to this Adjournment debate .
9	I am grateful to these sponsors and to my colleagues on the project , Alison Kelly , Barbara Smail and John Catton .
10	Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years .
11	‘ After all , I only want a bit of peace and quiet and I think I am entitled to that ! ’
12	‘ I am devoted to this boy , Mr D'Arcy .
13	I 'm close to this — whatever it is — but I ca n't grip it .
14	My Fender now is comfortable for me because it 's the bass I started out with , and I 'm used to that neck width which is like a tree trunk .
15	" I 'm new to all this , I 'm sorry .
16	‘ I 'm new to this village .
17	But I 'm grateful to all those who offered . ’
18	I think er , Committee ought just to say thanks for both of them , I , I mean this is n't the way with reference to peace elects them democratic , though they 're , I think both Mr and represent the County of Swindon now , and I 'm grateful to both of them because they took a , a , a weight off my personal shoulders , which was useful .
19	And for that I 'm grateful to those who peopled my journey .
20	I 'm sorry to this day that he and I could not have buried the hatchet as well .
21	Thank you everybody who spoke , I 'm sorry to those who did n't manage to fit in .
22	Erm , I 'm slightly more concerned though about security in this building and in some of our other main buildings and it brought it home very starkly to me and I 'm sure to all members of the board when we arrived at our meeting a few weeks ago and spent er over two hours standing , we did n't stay out , more or less standing out in the street and .
23	" Well , it seems I 'm allergic to all the dust in the air over here .
24	You can give , well , I 'm open to some large cash donations .
25	I 'm entitled to this because I am a taxpayer , and the system is there to make sure that taxpayers get the treatment they need . ’
26	‘ I 'm entitled to another chance of happiness , are n't I ? ’
27	While I was opposed to that operation , I have the highest respect for our armed forces personnel , and — for rather quaint reasons — I have great sympathy and respect for members of the Royal Military Police .
28	I was married to that .
29	You know , when I was married to that ball-crushing vicious old cow Sandra . ’
30	It was draining , but I was grateful to any journalists prepared to listen , even if it was obvious that some papers only felt it was a good story because of the ‘ love interest ’ .