Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother obviously considered this to be both morbid and affected . |
| 2 | Will the Secretary of State now give a guarantee that no sixth-form college student will be charged for activities in relation to the school curriculum , or is this to be yet another example of pay-as-you-learn under the Conservative Government ? |
| 3 | She so much wanted this to be exactly right ; and perhaps , by the time that Wayne returned , she 'd have enough of a grip on herself to ensure that it would be . |
| 4 | I believe this to be most important if we are to have rational investment decisions and efficient allocations of resources . |
| 5 | Some observers estimate this to be as high as £200m of public money — and that does n't include the prime location advertising space in London , Southampton and elsewhere . |
| 6 | Biocontrol reckons this to be much cheaper than current eye-tracking and visualisation systems and to be suitable for a host of applications ranging from medical research through computer games to lie detectors . |
| 7 | They do not propose to enter into work in school which makes achievement in competitive examinations possible , having judged this to be highly undesirable . |
| 8 | In practice , we do not believe this to be sufficiently important to invalidate comparisons . |
| 9 | I shuffled forward as fast as I dared along the central walkway , figuring this to be less likely to lead me towards a choice-limiting edge . |
| 10 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 11 | I consider this to be substantially true , and particularly true of my own childhood , although in this case there was scarcely any need for translation . |
| 12 | They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life . |
| 13 | I was happy enough for this to be more funny than embarrassing . |
| 14 | I believe this to be more pernicious than secularism per se . |
| 15 | Fraenkel 's view was that kinship ties were still held in high regard , and 1 believe this to be still true , however irksome people may find them . |
| 16 | The Office of Works considered this to be too expensive in land acquisition and Burton then prepared another scheme , which was confined to Crown land , retained Fludyer 's house and No. 15 , and had a wing extending along the south side of Downing Street . |
| 17 | But Mr Gorbachev may judge the risks of non-reform to be even higher . |
| 18 | ‘ When so much depends upon it , ’ she said , ‘ it seems wrong to be so certain . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose it seems wrong to be so afraid . |
| 20 | But they are wrong to be so forlorn . |
| 21 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 22 | It would be wrong to be too sentimental about what ‘ freedom ’ meant to Greeks ; Thucydides ( iii.45.6 ) makes a speaker use the phrase ‘ freedom , or rule over others ’ , and similar uses can be found in Greek authors from Herodotus ( i.210 ) to Polybius ( v.106 ) . |
| 23 | Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile . |
| 24 | I came prepared to be mildly pleased — one or two rumours have trickled back to Vienna , you know — and find myself overwhelmed . |
| 25 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 26 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 27 | Once the client has received his or her compensation , they are often prepared to be quite candid about the way the case was handled . |
| 28 | Does he not realise that unless he is prepared to be more imaginative — for instance , with schemes for converting mortgages to rents — we shall not avoid in the new year thousands of families facing misery , a further plunge in house prices and serious damage to the economy ? |
| 29 | Though the trend is one of improvement few City economists are prepared to be more optimistic than Mr Major 's own forecast for next year of £15billion . |
| 30 | If we want to go further back in history ( and are prepared to be suitably eclectic ) we can find a similarly expressed contrast between Roundheads and Cavaliers . |