Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth being clear in your own mind about the possible usefulness of Blake 's grid .
2 So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation .
3 Being fearless is like being immune to pain : it means we do things which others , in their right minds , would never consider .
4 It 's like being stuck on a telephone line .
5 That is all there is to it : the skill is in being clear about what you want to find .
6 If I have a pipe dream now , it 's to be involved in a Championship-winning side .
7 ‘ You 're doing great — what 's to be nervous about , sitting in an underground room with nobody listening to you , eh ? ’
8 If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion .
9 So it 's to be clear in what you 're saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so it 's about clarity
10 Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s .
11 In Pelkmans and Winters ( 1988 ) , and Padoa-Schioppa ( 1987 ) , there is discussion of the importance of appropriate institutional and legal frameworks in the areas of competition , regional , social , and technology policies if the European market is to be beneficial to all parties .
12 ( 6 ) Where any part of the portfolio or account is to be available for investment in contingent liability transactions ( such as futures ) , the maximum amount or percentage so available .
13 Gordian goes on to provide that the same is now to apply in pecuniary cases : an action for trust is to be available in all circumstances .
14 The client-server version is to be available in the second half of 1993 ; the terminal-based version early 1994 .
15 As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording .
16 If the hon. Gentleman is to be consistent with his opening sentence in which he quoted AMMA 's report , he must proceed to argue — rightly — that the Bill is confused and inadequate for its purposes and he must tell us what revisions he will seek .
17 To be the hired help is to be helpless in the face of taunts and insults .
18 The network is to be accessible from nodes within all the Cosine member countries , and is to offer a range of access speeds up to 2Mbps .
19 The trap of the observer is to be distant from the needs of others .
20 If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state .
21 The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task .
22 The experience of Cherry Willingham School suggests that several key strategies need to be included if LMS is to be successful with support staff .
23 If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals .
24 If a product or service is to be successful in the marketplace , then the organization itself must be designed to meet its conditions .
25 It is to be subjective about an objective situation .
26 To say , following Habermas , that cultural modernization is a process of differentiation and autonomization and that postmodernization is a process of de-differentiation and implosion is to be content with a purely descriptive analysis of cultural change .
27 This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review .
28 An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory .
29 Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded .
30 The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget .
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