Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But according to Paul Holmes , Date could not return Minton 's affection and seemed always a little embarrassed to be the object of such attention . |
| 2 | But you 've got to , Terence said it 's so dear to be a member you have got to keep going to get your , your money back . |
| 3 | She added brightly , ‘ Much easier to be a fallen woman when you 're miles from home . |
| 4 | She noticed that he continued to work , apparently unaware that he was entirely unsuited to be a dogsbody , and stifled a sigh . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes it 's not so easy to be the teacher 's pet ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes it 's not so easy to be the teacher 's pet ! ’ |
| 7 | That was why she 'd striven so hard to be a success all her life . |
| 8 | Furthermore , although Ritchie argues that ‘ cruelty to animals is rightly supposed to be an offence against humanitarian feeling ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) , I see no reason for concluding that by so saying he is denying that animals can be wronged , particularly given the wide measure of protection he accords them . |
| 9 | Icke 's so glad to be a loony |
| 10 | This meant there was less likely to be a change of mind from the old lady or daughter . |
| 11 | In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ? |
| 12 | There is less likely to be a misunderstanding by the analyst which causes a poorly designed system . |
| 13 | This is much less likely to be a problem in numerical work , which is therefore particularly important for studies of regimes inaccessible in the laboratory ( e.g. convection in conditions where non-Boussinesq effects — see the Appendix to Chapter 14 — are significant , perhaps in connection with an application such as solar granulation , Section 26.6 ) . |
| 14 | I can imagine nothing less likely to be an empowering experience . |
| 15 | A harem travelling with others is not only less likely to be the one attacked but , at least at the onset of the bachelors ' approach , the male can count on the participation of other harem males in ‘ yelping chases ’ that deter the attackers . |
| 16 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 17 | This is based on the comparison between the relative ease with which foreign companies may bid for British ones , due to the liberal capital markets in Britain , whereas Swiss companies are less likely to be the subject of takeover bids from abroad due to the financial structure of Swiss companies . |
| 18 | Thus paradoxically organisational loyalties as such were less likely to be the source of permanent , unchanging estrangement of abolitionists from each other . |
| 19 | This is only likely to be a problem in heavily polluted areas . |
| 20 | The reported number of people known to have HIV only includes those who have taken a blood test , and is therefore only likely to be a small proportion of the total number infected . |
| 21 | It would appear , however , that some tumours contain more active product than others ; thus autocrine growth promoting effects that might be attributable to gastrin are in any case only likely to be a property of a subset of tumours . |
| 22 | Solaris 2.0 was only supposed to be a developers ' release in the first place . |
| 23 | He 's not supposed to be first , he 's only supposed to be the exhibits man , but suddenly he 's there , running down the hallway . |
| 24 | But the Horde really should be sufficiently and stubbornly ambitious to be the next classic band and in the process to take that soaraway sound into the Nineties . |
| 25 | With new product development , as we have noted , this is especially likely to be a problem . |
| 26 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 27 | Maybe I should even feel a little flattered that you consider me sufficiently important to be a threat to Rob 's engagement . ’ |
| 28 | I was so excited to be a young bride going off on tour to Europe . |
| 29 | Why have you got ta be so nice to be a Wren , I can see a policewoman but not a Wren ! |
| 30 | Poulantzas therefore confines his attention to capitalist societies , which he regards as sufficiently alike to be the subject-matter of a single theory . |