Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry , you 'll have to wait for daddy 's clear . |
| 2 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 3 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 4 | ‘ To write about Aids is bad taste , ’ he deadpans . |
| 5 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 6 | To tamper with serfdom was certain to arouse wild expectations among the peasantry and would require the most rigorous control . |
| 7 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 8 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 9 | The freedom to wander at will is illusory if all the destinations are indistinguishable . |
| 10 | REVOLVER , Pulp and The Bardots are among 15 bands confirmed to appear at London 's Smashed ! |
| 11 | FUDGE TUNNEL , HOLY JOY and BACK TO THE PLANET are among bands confirmed to appear at London 's Smashed ! |
| 12 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 13 | As Weisstein says , seeing psychological gender differences as complementary is sophism : ‘ It is no use to talk about women being different but equal ; all of the tests 1 can think of have a ‘ good ’ outcome and a ‘ bad ’ outcome ’ ( 1973 : 419 ) . |
| 14 | Saatchi 's decision to sell through Gagosian is understandable purely on business terms , but other aspects of the sale are less readily explicable . |
| 15 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 16 | The factors which permit public bureaucracies to engage in politics are variable in their significance as between political systems . |
| 17 | Learning to listen to feelings is essential in any area of experience . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't want it to sound like Jayne 's mundane . |
| 19 | The opportunity to escape from Reine was irresistible . |
| 20 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 21 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 22 | For the ability to play on stage is important in life , as it is to continue to fill that empty space with our vision . |
| 23 | Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me . |
| 24 | The removal of the ‘ problem ’ of what to do about aggravations is wonderful and gives complete freedom to use the range of remedies whatever reputation they may have for over-reacting or whatever rules may have evolved about not repeating . |
| 25 | It is important that the decision of the ship 's owners to put to sea was voluntary . |
| 26 | If both sexes work to produce offspring , as in a species with biparental care , the selection for males to compete for matings is relaxed , and monogamy may result . |
| 27 | The decision to convert for NetWare is customer-driven , he said — with NetWare 's 60% to 70% market share in both Europe and the US , Informix can be sure that Novell 's operating system will be running in at least one department in the majority of companies . |
| 28 | Again , the decision to convert for NetWare is customer-driven , he said — with NetWare 's 60% to 70% market share in both Europe and the US , Informix can be sure that Novell 's operating system will be running in at least one department in the majority of companies . |
| 29 | But to campaign against Maastricht is political posturing in the most foul of company . |
| 30 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |