Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slick programmes and vast fees may have contributed less than is apparent to those outside government , who can not see how policy conclusions are actually reached . |
| 2 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 3 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 4 | When we identify something we pin it down and are halfway to mastering it . |
| 5 | However , having heard argument , I am satisfied that the order of Saville J. was provisional only and was subject to any further order that might be made on further material being placed before the court . |
| 6 | You could n't afford to have drivers sitting around for ten minutes not doing anything , so you married these routes up together and were able to , by manipulation , get them to a more economical run . |
| 7 | Let us live near together and be kind to each other and love each other . |
| 8 | Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company . |
| 9 | This group pressure for conformity may often override values imposed from outside : for example , the child may refuse to ‘ tell tales on his or her friends ’ despite demands from the teacher , or soldiers may infringe Queen 's Regulations rather than be disloyal to their comrades in the platoon . |
| 10 | Writing in 1946 , Knights , an editor of Scrutiny in the 19305 , is anxious that English should not avoid " controversial questions " in the name of " disinterested knowledge " , The discipline should attempt to provide an education which produces men and women who are not afraid to ask awkward questions , particularly when it comes to matters relating to the " quality of living " , rather than being content to simply fit people into " the machinery of society as it exists at present . |
| 11 | This love for their land is refreshing — they consistently enthuse about their country rather than being swift to bad-mouth it — and it is also reflected in their desire to protect large areas from exploitation . |
| 12 | It seems likely that the sensation of falling is the outcome of cortical interpretation of the production of this innate response , rather than being intrinsic to its generation . |
| 13 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 14 | For metal objects , as we have seen in Chapter 5 , the bulk composition was very much under the control of the metalsmith rather than being unique to origin . |
| 15 | Do n't use facial scrubs on spotty areas or if your skin is sensitive ( ie it flushes easily and is prone to broken veins ) . |
| 16 | Does she know that you 've been unfaithful to her once already and are willing to be again — except that this time I 'm not co-operating ? |
| 17 | And it did quite , but bad Lydia did n't know because she had made up her mind already and was blind to the simpler aspects of reality . |
| 18 | Doreen Horridge , the DoH nursing officer who is responsible for the implementation of nurse prescribing , said the nurses ' formulary would be published shortly but was subject to consultation under the Medicines Act 1968 . |
| 19 | Perhaps what we believe today is no better than the Sunday-school notions we were forced to discard yesterday and is different to us only because we are believing it today ? |
| 20 | Sometimes this involves heavy conflict , and he may ever after be sensitive to the threat posed by powerful women who try to dominate him . |
| 21 | The underprovision of clinical and medical oncologists remote from the south east of England is real , and the disparity can not be passed off as being due to university and research commitments . |
| 22 | The first satisfaction of indeterminist claims , including those , like the present one , which are not within but are antecedent to the traditional area of dispute about Free Will , is of course that they leave , or promise to leave , room for a reassuring or enhancing view of ourselves and our situation . |
| 23 | Three things stand out clearly that are relevant to the present discussion . |
| 24 | The meeting begins at 8pm and is open to all residents in the area . |
| 25 | When you 're packed up and are ready to be on your way , the Bike Tent packs small and is carried under the crossbar to save precious space in your panniers . |
| 26 | Everybody stand up and be ready to be a bear |
| 27 | Clearly the Trust must act boldly and be willing to fell over-age trees . |
| 28 | The police treated those who refused to turn back as being vulnerable to the charge of obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty , contrary to section 51(3) of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 29 | I was led thither by the fiscal , who knows them well and is kind to them . |
| 30 | Locally-trained Mauir Joyful ( 8.48 ) was impressive over the shorter course a week ago and is unlikely to be troubled in getting the extra distance . |