Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prerequisite for successful collaboration , therefore , was shared planning ; the precondition for such planning to be coherent was shared values . |
| 2 | The business community recognises that those enterprises deemed to be successful are those which are responsive to market changes . |
| 3 | The precise nature and length of the transition period to Europe 's monetary unification have yet to be determined while agreement on the political and economic structures required for the Community 's monetary union to be durable is unlikely to be reached before the mid-1990s . |
| 4 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 5 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 6 | Eh , it , it 's going to be closed is that account in December and re-opened . |
| 7 | However , the Ayr plant with 1,000 employees seems to be Digital 's preferred site ahead of a similar plant at Galway where 1,200 jobs are now at risk . |
| 8 | To be married is life-protective for both sexes but more so for men than for women . |
| 9 | The knowledge that a project is likely to be post-audited is useful for keeping management on its toes , not only in their evaluation of investment proposals but also in the implementation and operation of an investment programme . |
| 10 | Even its efforts to be indelicate are dull . ’ |
| 11 | This reduction in pleural thickening could also be seen on the chest x ray ( Fig 5 ) making it very likely that the pleural thickening noted initially in October 1990 and thought then to be unimportant was neoplastic from the outset . |
| 12 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 13 | Whose responsibility or whose , whose supposed to be that is irrelevant , it just needs to be cleared up . |
| 14 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 15 | And the most important properties of which this is held to be true are those which constitute our conception of individuals as autonomous agents . |
| 16 | To be beloved is all I need And whom I love , I love indeed . |
| 17 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 18 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 19 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 20 | The other motives that seem to be important are social , community , housing and family reasons . |
| 21 | Tale-telling on each other and inciting each other to be naughty are frequent problems faced by parents of young children . |
| 22 | He takes an impish delight in shocking the press and dismaying the clients as he prepares to change direction : ‘ To be provocative is important , and change is vital for personal survival . |
| 23 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 24 | To be alone is one thing , but to be alone and to have no means at all of shattering the shell of silence around you to summon the comforting sound of a human voice is quite another . |
| 25 | To allow a dog with arthritis to be overweight is tantamount to cruelty and Eukanuba is excellent as a complete food . |