Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When so much depends upon it , ’ she said , ‘ it seems wrong to be so certain . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose it seems wrong to be so afraid . |
| 3 | But they are wrong to be so forlorn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I came prepared to be mildly pleased — one or two rumours have trickled back to Vienna , you know — and find myself overwhelmed . |
| 8 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Once the client has received his or her compensation , they are often prepared to be quite candid about the way the case was handled . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not all of you felt willing to be completely honest with me , but I do n't wish to labour that point now . |
| 15 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 16 | If a hypnotist is willing to be so deceptive while hypnotising a patient , can he be trusted when the patient is in a trance ? |
| 17 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 18 | In it , he argues that women are free to be as nasty , rude , insulting and vicious as they like about men , but the reverse is not true . |
| 19 | Is she really free to be as tidy or untidy as she pleases ? |
| 20 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 21 | Display of passions , congratulation and excitement between men on the pitch , otherwise considered by the British to be dangerously continental ( see xenophobia ) , or , more generally , deviant ( see opera , innocent looks , sex ban and drooling ) . |
| 22 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 23 | I think I was actually too cold and too wet to be too worried about the outcome . |
| 24 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 25 | I felt suddenly afraid of him , afraid to be too close to his pain , knowing I 'd caused it . |
| 26 | At a distance of 32 feet , letters must be 2½ inches high to be clearly visible at the back of the class . |
| 27 | It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable . |
| 28 | These are general criteria and it is dangerous to be too specific . |
| 29 | It is clearly dangerous to be too sweeping about the type of support which fascism received , for the evidence is far too diffuse and fragmentary , but it would be fair to accept Wal Hannington 's point that the allegiance to the trade unions and the Labour Party prevented the working class and the unemployed being attracted to fascism though he felt that , ‘ Every locality where the unemployed remain unorganized is a potential breeding-ground for this country , just as it was in Germany . ’ |
| 30 | However , you 're most fortunate to be so self-sufficient , ’ she added drily , while ignoring the darkening scowl on his face . |