Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited . |
| 2 | The Queen would normally send for the person she deemed most likely to be able to form a government with majority support in the Commons . |
| 3 | During the historical period East Prussian amber was considered sufficiently valuable to be declared Crown property , its exploitation subject to licence . |
| 4 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 5 | And true to form Flippin Shytalk roars across the line to win again … the National Championship should be their 's this summer … they defy the dangers week in week out … there 's no money to be won just fun to be had … |
| 6 | Boys appear more likely to be accommodated in residential settings than girls , and younger children tend to be placed in foster homes ( see DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Although those in the control sample in Ipswich appear more likely to be in receipt of home help than those in the action sample ( perhaps in compensation for their lack of Home Support Project help ) the mean number of home help hours received by those who were getting any was higher in the action than control sample ( 3.8 hours per week compared with 2.4 hours in the control group ) . |
| 8 | Other supposed pongine characters of the zygomatic and orbital regions appear more likely to be primitive for the Hominidae . |
| 9 | I found always this to be the case : resumption of acquaintance was so natural that small talk , as mere material for continuity or improvization , was unnecessary . |
| 10 | Coated with a conductor , they can also be used as electrical connectors , enabling about 100 to be packed into a ½ in plug . |
| 11 | Once separated from the jaws they appear equally likely to be digested , so that there is approximate equivalence between the samples . |
| 12 | Despite the past experiences of many manufacturing workers , and the wariness of telecommunications workers , the industrial robot looks increasingly likely to be a positive rather than a negative influence in many working environments . |
| 13 | because it is becoming increasingly difficult to be nice to the Conservatives particularly when you produce something like this |
| 14 | He looks almost certain to be released today . |
| 15 | Either nature does not contain it or nature contains too much to be conceived any longer as natural . |
| 16 | We are going to have to work very hard to be ready in time . ’ |
| 17 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 18 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 19 | Or a pregnant girl may wait too long to be able to have one legally , or may be afraid of what her family will say . |
| 20 | Ginny used to think that Carinish Court tried too hard to be something that it was n't . |
| 21 | Their penchant for turning defence into attack is well-known but Antrim could have their measure this time round although that might be considered too good to be true in some quarters . |
| 22 | Nurses will not take on tasks considered too menial to be done by medical staff , doctors have been warned . |
| 23 | Lastly , there is a ‘ Catalogue of large Trees which are admitted in the London Dispensary , but generally grow too large to be admitted into small gardens ’ . |
| 24 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 25 | Times are changing and marketing agencies are now briefing their company-clients about the ‘ grey consumer ’ , whose custom is becoming too valuable to be ignored . |
| 26 | The meaning of such affinities is obscure , but they appear too regular to be just coincidental . |
| 27 | I felt the video tried to encompass too much to be really useful to any one level of skier . |
| 28 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 29 | A threshold could then be determined beyond which certain combinations could be deemed too infrequent to be worthy of inclusion within the dictionary . |
| 30 | One lord justice of appeal appointed in 1984 , Sir David Croom-Johnson , was seventy when he took up his post , the age at which mere mortals are deemed too doddery to be trusted on jury service . |