Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 2 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 3 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 4 | and one of those is sixteen year old Rachel Bradridge from Gloucester … she 's the all england junior champion and is reckoned good enough to be a future olmpyic skier |
| 5 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 6 | Just enough to be a real pain . |
| 7 | But with the exception of a little doubt as to what the relatively vague adjective hardy might mean , the husband eventually proves a worthy man against all of these criteria : clever enough to be a successful merchant and therefore rich ; hospitable and generous ; and apparently able to fulfil his wife 's demands of him in bed . |
| 8 | Just stupid and irritating enough to be a minor hit — but I doubt it . |
| 9 | It was the band 's last date before cancelling the rest of their European tour due to Kurt Cobain 's ravaged voice and , although messy in places , their performance still heaved with a sometimes dangerous , sometimes carefree sense of abandon , enough to be a vivid reminder of just why this band had meant more than any other for years . |
| 10 | Its 13 main business lines , each large enough to be a Fortune-500 company , have about as much in common as ice cream and cement . |
| 11 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 12 | Cook 's pioneering excursionists to Scotland were greeted with crowd-lined streets , brass bands and cannon fire because the tourist was still unusual enough to be an entertaining curiosity . |
| 13 | If the provisions were to work , there had obviously to be a clear definition of the institutions to whom they applied and the institutions chosen were mainly those for which the Bank of England had supervisory responsibility under the 1979 Banking Act , expanded by a few additions . |
| 14 | For all these purposes he needs not only to be a good lawyer but to have business acumen and an intimate knowledge of the problems of the trade or industry in question . |
| 15 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 16 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 17 | War was only to be a last resort . |
| 18 | But the new town church , large and imposing though it was , was allowed only to be a dependent chapel of the mother-church , without the right of burial of the dead . |
| 19 | To me though this is much more a landscape of alienation , and I miss my creek which now seems only to be a nostalgic dream . |
| 20 | He spoke with a strong Irish accent , soon to be a familiar sound on board since most of the emigrants were Irish — and most of them as scrawny and hollow-cheeked as he was . |
| 21 | In 1979 , Roy Jenkins , ex-Labour minister , President of the European Commission , and soon to be a born-again British politician , was invited by the BBC to give the Richard Dimbleby lecture . |
| 22 | A picture of Augusta in The Queen : ‘ a blushing rosebud , soon to be a blushing bride . |
| 23 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 24 | Today 's West Germany bends over backwards to be a reliable ally . |
| 25 | Despite what Mrs Sangster says , the jettisoning of the Sangster flagship will be seen as further evidence of her husband falling behind in racing 's power game , in which it is no longer enough just to be a run-of-the-mill millionaire . |
| 26 | ‘ Our task over the next few years is not just to be an effective Parliamentary opposition but to lead great national debates about the future direction of our country and to forge a new national consensus across a range of issues . ’ |
| 27 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 28 | What he was to do next was always to be a serious problem for Burton . |
| 29 | There is bound always to be a considerable vested interest in the status quo , particularly amongst the most entrenched and powerful individuals in any institution : the way things are generally suits them well enough . |
| 30 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |