Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 2 | Lyons flies out to Brunei this week to take charge of the national team less than six months after being surplus to requirements at Huddersfield Town . |
| 3 | It was the result of being obedient to God . |
| 4 | One result of being open to children 's ideas in science is that all pupils in a class are taken seriously as learners and thinkers . |
| 5 | Ideally this does not ensue from flagrant compromises in outlook and working methods but rather as a result of being true to real aims and objectives . |
| 6 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 7 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 8 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 9 | The seating plan had given me no view at all of my now-giggling pals , but the great bonus of being next to Patricia Hutchinson , and opposite the Principal , who is most gracious , and does n't miss a trick . |
| 10 | What we are really talking about of course is entitlement — sharing the privileges of being able to be in touch with other cultures . |
| 11 | She 's mother-of-three Pamela Stephenson , the woman who has made the interesting switch from being outrageous to outraged ; graduating from wicked impersonations of Margaret Thatcher to delivering petitions to the leaderene 's own doorstep . |
| 12 | I take great pleasure in being able to second this amendment . |
| 13 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 14 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 15 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 16 | The attempt to be fair to all traditions , by being equally tolerant of all and non-judgemental , can lead like a slippery slope from well-intentioned neutrality to profound scepticism about religion . |
| 17 | I offer one or two possible explanations in an attempt to be generous to the Government . |
| 18 | Ref. 8 used the Northern Hemisphere , land-based temperature record as an indicator of global change , claiming these data to be superior to the full global data set , but this is incorrect . |
| 19 | There were no significant differences between the total , autonomic , and neuroglycopenic scores reported by subjects to be important to them at the beginning of a hypoglycaemic attack or later during its progression . |
| 20 | In special cases this rule to be subject to the discretion of the Committee of Management . ’ |
| 21 | With that letter , I sent you two copies of the Agreement for signature on behalf of Bell Communications Research , on whose behalf I understand you placed the order , and requested details of the specification you wished the tape to be prepared to . |
| 22 | We shall therefore take the flux density in the gap to be equal to B0 . |
| 23 | So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex . |
| 24 | However the problems they are confronted with suppress their capability to be effective to a significant degree . |
| 25 | Currently under review , the regulations list six categories of industry to be subject to IPC , namely : fuel and power , metal , mineral , chemical , waste disposal and other industries . |
| 26 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 27 | It no longer needed the wealthy connoisseur for his erudition , it had acquired the relevant expertise into its own hands , but it still needed his recognition to be acceptable to society . |
| 28 | As a student , one is fortunate to have a mind nurtured into a condition to be open to such experiences and benefit from such insight . |
| 29 | By kicking out hunslet , the pitch will be in good enough condition to be able to stage semifinals of the FA cup without Francis whingeing . |
| 30 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |