Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] of [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. To be successful farmers need to be sure of being able to sell their outputs at reasonable prices . |
| 2 | doing more to get people to be proud of being bald than you are ? |
| 3 | So far as confession evidence is concerned , the old law emphasized that , to be capable of being entered in evidence , a confession had to be obtained ‘ voluntarily ’ . |
| 4 | The house which in everyday discourse the wife and husband regarded as ‘ theirs ’ turned out in legal discourse to be capable of being theirs in many different ways . |
| 5 | Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts . |
| 6 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 7 | Objectives must be set if the mission is to be capable of being achieved . |
| 8 | Furthermore , this " essence " needs to be capable of being infinitely adaptable according to the uniqueness of each person 's experience and needs and interests . |
| 9 | Notice that the technique is extremely difficult to apply to the potentiometer divider of figure 8.1(c) because the resistance ratio can be varied continuously to alter the division of potential , and any introduced ratio of parallel capacitance would need to be capable of being varied in sympathy . |
| 10 | But I expect that will suit you , since you seem to be afraid of being alone with me . ’ |
| 11 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |
| 12 | If it turns out to be incapable of being remedied , the result may well be different . |