Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That does n't surprise me ; the old man was fond of cats so Sara decided to be allergic to cat 's fur and father encouraged the neighbourhood moggies into his office with kitchen scraps . |
| 32 | At the same time , Schuman ceased to be central to French foreign policy . |
| 33 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 34 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 35 | Built in left-hand-drive form only , a mere 125 a year of the 155mph saloon will reach the UK , starting around mid-year at a price expected to be close to £52,000 . |
| 36 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 37 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 38 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 39 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 40 | However , a Midland Bank spokesman said the group expected the dividend flow from the investments acquired to be preferable to the dividend flow from its Argentinian loan portfolio . |
| 41 | The Chancellor 's appointment of non-party men to Cabinet posts caused resentment in the CDU and in November 1988 there was another embarrassing resignation , by the President of the Bundestag , Philipp Jenninger , who made a speech on the fortieth anniversary of Kristallnacht ( the Nazi 's anti-Jewish pogrom ) which some took to be sympathetic to Nazism . |
| 42 | As a host , Fowler-Troon proved to be attentive to the point of fussiness . |
| 43 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 44 | Stephen liked to be able to wrong-foot the people who worked for him and was a master at taking them off-guard . |
| 45 | The change in the figures appeared to be due to things like administrative convenience . |
| 46 | This group appeared to be opposed to both Mobutu and the leadership of the Sacred Union , calling for a new generation to take control of Zaïrean politics . |
| 47 | In reviewing the four projects , the Social Services Inspectorate identified ten key elements which appeared to be crucial to the achievement of effective multidisciplinary assessment ( DoH , 1989b ) . |
| 48 | Bacteriophages appeared to be harmless to man , and seemed to be promising therapeutic agents of revolutionary importance . |
| 49 | For one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century was the fact that some molecules in space actually appeared to be similar to those that make up amino acids . |
| 50 | Much later , in 1892 , a sealed bottle of this isoprene was found to contain yellowish lumps which appeared to be similar to natural rubber . |
| 51 | This continued until the other day , when the fish ended up floating on its back and appeared to be close to death , although it recovered . |
| 52 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 53 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 54 | And TP+ , Gresham 's transaction processing technology said to be complementary to teleprocessing managers such as Tuxedo , Top-End and Encina , has been integrated into Dun & Bradstreet financial accounting software which is now beginning to ship . |
| 55 | Co-opted members of council committees continued to be entitled to a financial loss allowance if they could show loss of earnings resulting from council work . |
| 56 | We wished to be able to : |
| 57 | I wished to be charitable to the boy , my lord . |
| 58 | She longed to be close to her mother , or talking to Louise or cycling up the drive towards the grim yews of Seaton Cramer Hall and the warm welcome of Miss Hatherby . |
| 59 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 60 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |