Example sentences of "to be [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , cricket is meant to be above all that — playing sport should be fun and it certainly is n't when you are confined to your hotel all the time . ’ |
| 2 | Notice that each successive peak and trough is likely to be above all preceding ones because of underlying growth in the economy 's productive capacity . |
| 3 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 4 | She heard the amazement , as if what she 'd suggested had to be beyond all rational consideration ; certainly not anything that had ever merited any thought on his part . |
| 5 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 6 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 7 | Of course , SERPS rights had to be forfeited , but for younger people these were calculated to be worth much less than the personal pension could offer . |
| 8 | Estimates vary widely but by 1995 many industry analysts expect HDTV hardware and programming to be worth many billions of pounds . |
| 9 | The British government is committed to taking 1,000 ex-detainees and their dependants , believed to be about another 3,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's got to be about this Spanish thing , ’ Mitch said quietly . |
| 11 | You can not afford to be without this brilliant package . |
| 12 | The emerging pattern seemed to be of each main electronic and electrical sector being left with about three major companies . |
| 13 | For such a quality to be fully present , body , psyche and spirit would all have to be of that higher order . |
| 14 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 15 | In the literature a " simple " material is referred to as one in which the stress depends only on the history of the deformation gradients F ( dependence on higher-order gradients has been considered but at present seems to be of little practical value ) . |
| 16 | Helping children complete tasks which the support teacher considers to be of little educational value . |
| 17 | In Precedent 2 there are two such special clauses which are , however , felt to be of some general application . |
| 18 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 19 | These arms are indeed going to have to be of some considerable length as your excellent photograph appears to be of Tweedmouth , Berwick-upon-Tweed , in Northumberland ( England ) ! |
| 20 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 21 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 22 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 23 | But to be of any real use giveaways must be both useful or decorative and relevant to the product or service you are promoting . |
| 24 | For speech recognition to be of any real use , however , the computer must seem to ‘ understand ’ the speech as fast as another human , the number crunching approach rarely achieves this . |
| 25 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 27 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 28 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 29 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 30 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |