Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ She said with quiet passion , ‘ Ah Lily , Lily , it is after all wonderful to be married and have children . |
| 2 | An account of the last hours and words is written for the edification of those unable to be present . |
| 3 | The Coulson Professor will be amongst those eligible to be head of department . |
| 4 | The reciprocal relationship embodies two-way communication , with each open to be influenced by the other . |
| 5 | However , the role of the associate nurse is seen as being skilled and creative , indicating a level of professional job satisfaction far above that likely to be experienced by nurses delivering care by either task allocation or team nursing . |
| 6 | When new ones were completed , the seamstress was told to take out all used dress shields from the old costumes and stitch them into those due to be taken abroad . |
| 7 | According to this theory , initial discrimination training should produce differentiation of the stimuli and the fact that the associations formed during this stage of training do not accord with those likely to be formed during the test phase should be of no consequence . |
| 8 | The Centre for International Briefing runs residential courses for those due to be posted abroad . |
| 9 | Some improvement might be effected in these situations if the critical jobs to be carried on , in the event of illness , could be identified and training provided for those likely to be left to carry on . |
| 10 | For those unable to be so direct , the bed can become , for the angry woman , an arena of struggle , perhaps the only one in which she has the advantage . |
| 11 | He explained the new Act which carried imprisonment for those liable to be subversive . |
| 12 | She could feel his light-weapon burning off her skin , charring her bones , slinging her on to some meat-heap to be reassembled from scrap . |
| 13 | Once again the Party was preparing for armed struggle and the stunning German victory of 1940 would have appeared to many Vietnamese to be ‘ the moment of great opportunity ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Secondly — and especially in those parishes most affected by the threatened closures — we must offer practical friendship and support to those likely to be hurt by the closures . |
| 15 | Considering the sensitivity of lakes and soils in other parts of the world and expected rapid industrialization in the coming decades , areas such as Brazil , Nigeria , southern Africa , India , Malaysia and China are among those likely to be exposed to an increased risk of acid deposition effects in the future ( figure 4.13 ; Swedish Ministry of Agriculture , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Among those unable to be with us today , ’ continued the colonel , ‘ is a young man who followed Lieutenant Harvey into the enemy trenches and then killed four , perhaps five German soldiers before later stalking and shooting another , finally killing a German officer before being tragically killed himself by a stray bullet when only yards from the safety of his own trenches . ’ |
| 17 | Americans were not at all used to being defeated . |
| 18 | She fell asleep , accordingly , at once , after her stage make-up was removed ; and was not at all pleased to be wakened early with the news that Mrs Gracie had called . |
| 19 | And I find this challenging , these talks , which is why I was n't at all sorry to be asked to do so and why I continue to do them and I enjoy giving the , I enjoy meeting people , I meet an awful lot of , of nice people . |
| 20 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |