Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 2 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 3 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 4 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 5 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 6 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 7 | ‘ Daft of me not to be able to remember who the girl was , ’ he said , ‘ but I tell you what I do remember . |
| 8 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 9 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 10 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 11 | So I suppose one day sooner or later we 'll have to do this disgusting thing in order for me not to be barren , but I do n't look forward to it . |
| 12 | On that occasion Moses urged them not to be afraid , and God responded immediately by ordering the preparations for his great act of salvation . |
| 13 | Enid : I would just give them a big hug and tell them not to be silly . |
| 14 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 15 | Non-career golfing ladies still comprise a majority of lady members and it probably does not make much practical difference to them not to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday morning since they have access to the courses at all other times . |
| 16 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 17 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 18 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 19 | As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving ! |
| 20 | yeah , but for you not to be able to bend your head |
| 21 | I do n't want you not to be happy with it |
| 22 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 23 | Nor did I meet you here to be angry with you , I hope I have not so offended you that you refuse to officiate and give us your instructions here tomorrow |
| 24 | And although the expression of futurity is clumsy ( and would usually be replaced by a finite clause ) it is grammatical and does occur : ( 53 ) we understand it to be going to be taxable ( if the bill is passed ) our host thought you about to be offensive |
| 25 | ‘ And you about to be married ? |
| 26 | I do n't think you 'd get many volunteers to join you either to be honest . |
| 27 | For these to be effective the patient would need to practise them repeatedly to be able to bring about fairly rapid relaxation when tense feelings were beginning to occur . |
| 28 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing I 've done that I 'm ashamed of , Cleg , ’ she said softly , ‘ my father brought me up to be respectable and that 's what I am . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |