Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strove daily to be the perfect wife . |
| 2 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 3 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 4 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 5 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 6 | and one of those is sixteen year old Rachel Bradridge from Gloucester … she 's the all england junior champion and is reckoned good enough to be a future olmpyic skier |
| 7 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 8 | Just enough to be a real pain . |
| 9 | But with the exception of a little doubt as to what the relatively vague adjective hardy might mean , the husband eventually proves a worthy man against all of these criteria : clever enough to be a successful merchant and therefore rich ; hospitable and generous ; and apparently able to fulfil his wife 's demands of him in bed . |
| 10 | Just stupid and irritating enough to be a minor hit — but I doubt it . |
| 11 | It was the band 's last date before cancelling the rest of their European tour due to Kurt Cobain 's ravaged voice and , although messy in places , their performance still heaved with a sometimes dangerous , sometimes carefree sense of abandon , enough to be a vivid reminder of just why this band had meant more than any other for years . |
| 12 | Perhaps Cantona & Wallace would have worked , but Cantona was n't tough enough to be the front man , as scum found out in Turkey ( ha , ha ) , I 'm sure if Hughes had played instead they would still be in the EC . |
| 13 | So , if you are fortunate ( or clever ) enough to be the proud possessor of an appropriate handset , you will soon be able to use it throughout Europe . |
| 14 | Patrick thought he looked insignificant enough to be the undercover MI6 man at the Bucharest Embassy . |
| 15 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 16 | Cook 's pioneering excursionists to Scotland were greeted with crowd-lined streets , brass bands and cannon fire because the tourist was still unusual enough to be an entertaining curiosity . |
| 17 | If the provisions were to work , there had obviously to be a clear definition of the institutions to whom they applied and the institutions chosen were mainly those for which the Bank of England had supervisory responsibility under the 1979 Banking Act , expanded by a few additions . |
| 18 | For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question . |
| 19 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 20 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 21 | But the new town church , large and imposing though it was , was allowed only to be a dependent chapel of the mother-church , without the right of burial of the dead . |
| 22 | To me though this is much more a landscape of alienation , and I miss my creek which now seems only to be a nostalgic dream . |
| 23 | O nine of four six four one six four one if you 'd like to comment on something in the news at the moment something on er Judy 's just said or er on this business of of life imprisonment , No longer to be the automatic penalty for murder judges to be given the freedom to impose whatever penalty they see fit . |
| 24 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 25 | It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning ! |
| 26 | He spoke with a strong Irish accent , soon to be a familiar sound on board since most of the emigrants were Irish — and most of them as scrawny and hollow-cheeked as he was . |
| 27 | In 1979 , Roy Jenkins , ex-Labour minister , President of the European Commission , and soon to be a born-again British politician , was invited by the BBC to give the Richard Dimbleby lecture . |
| 28 | A picture of Augusta in The Queen : ‘ a blushing rosebud , soon to be a blushing bride . |
| 29 | On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events . |
| 30 | If the said Member of Parliament is not selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate at the special meeting referred to in paragraph ( b ) above to be the prospective parliamentary candidate , he or she shall have the right to appeal to the National Executive Committee on the grounds , and only on the grounds , that the procedure laid down in these rules and the general provision of the constitution and rules have not been properly carried out . |