Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore a bow tie , a corduroy jacket , and suede shoes and appeared to Millet to be well-distanced from any workshop floor . |
| 2 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 3 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 4 | The assistants behind the counter wore what appeared to Helen to be fancy dress : boaters with scarlet bands and elaborate aprons . |
| 5 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 6 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 7 | And obviously if you playing cards close to your chest , you need something like this to sort of be able , you know , |
| 8 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 9 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 10 | It 's a voucher with a three day mini-cruise for two people sharing from Harwich to Hamburg or Harwich to Esbjerg to be used weekdays , valid until the twentieth of December and it 's worth a hundred and sixty quid . |
| 11 | This is a voucher worth a hundred and sixty pounds with for a three day mini-cruise for two people sharing from Harwich to Hamburg or Harwich to Esbjerg to be used weekdays , until the twentieth of December . |
| 12 | This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ] |
| 13 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 14 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 15 | He would also go to Tangier to be close to his friend , the Hon George Borwick , who was married to a South African diamond multi-millionairess and was a member of the baking powder business . |
| 16 | But John-William — who always knew to the very minute — was engaged in the happy task of bringing his daughter to church to be married . |
| 17 | Charlton 's excellent win still left them needing two victories from their last to games to be certain of left a play-off place . |
| 18 | It was too close to blasphemy to be comfortable . |
| 19 | ‘ The Gbejniet moxxi is good , ’ he murmured helpfully , observing her silent conflict with what seemed to Caroline to be cruel amusement . |
| 20 | It is helpful to users to be able to provide a means of storing a number of items representing certain LIFESPAN configuration types ( eg. module names , DC identifiers , SPR identifiers , etc. ) so that previously used items can be recalled . |
| 21 | It is helpful to users to be able to provide a means of storing a number of items representing certain LIFESPAN configuration types ( eg. module names , DC identifiers , SPR identifiers , etc. ) so that previously used items can be recalled . |
| 22 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 23 | The available body of existing tempo evidence may appear to Neumann to be slim , but this does not mean that it is insignificant . |
| 24 | Mott , Hay & Anderson , the tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan 's refusal to move from London to Newcastle to be unreasonable . |
| 25 | ( During his life they had appeared to others to be eight-faceted and eerily insectile ) . |
| 26 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 27 | Samples received from ICC show the ratio of characters to keystrokes to be 2:3 and the ratio for data delivered to the project team may increase to 1:2 . |
| 28 | He returned to Germany for good in 1857 , moving for a time to Berlin to be near Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia ( ‘ Fritz ’ and ‘ Vicky ’ ) . |
| 29 | On balance , they believe it to be a flexible enough approach to SSE to be applicable to different school circumstances , to be institutionally penetrating and to be capable of bringing about changes in schools using it . |