Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The former Open champion signed the contract at St Andrews yesterday and said he was delighted to be involved in the venture . |
| 32 | Patrick Murphy said last night he was angry about his treatment by police but was delighted to be free . |
| 33 | I was content to be shy . |
| 34 | I was content to be silent . ’ |
| 35 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 36 | It was impossible to be sure . |
| 37 | What caused the accident remains a mystery , although a cut in on of the rear tyres was discovered over a week later , but according to Lotus is was impossible to be categoric as to the real cause . |
| 38 | It was impossible to be nervous of someone you were sorry for , and she was sorry for him . |
| 39 | It was impossible to be euphemistic about the basic facts of nature when one lived on a stud farm , Harry told himself as he watched Cora-Beth rise from the swing seat where they were sitting and walk across the veranda into the house to fetch a fresh jug of lemonade . |
| 40 | It was impossible to be polite and distant with this man . |
| 41 | It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side . |
| 42 | Fenella , who had almost forgotten about this , was cheered , because it was impossible to be afraid ( well , almost impossible ) with Bith and Culdub and Flaherty and the rest of them . |
| 43 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |
| 44 | I call ‘ conservative ’ , for the purposes of the discussion in this chapter , Christologies which hold the maleness of Christ to be essential to his nature , and the fact that Christ was male to be central to Christianity . |
| 45 | I thought I 'd better add a rider to that , it was easy to be male and misunderstood around here . |
| 46 | It was easy to be defiant . |
| 47 | It was easy to be good then . |
| 48 | It was easy to be side-tracked by the more exotic elements in a case . |
| 49 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 50 | It was dangerous to be dangerous back then . |
| 51 | Edward was fortunate to be able to do only half his job and escape condemnation . |
| 52 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 53 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 54 | Because the hair , too , was black it was hard to be sure that it was not simply matted and dried insects . |
| 55 | It was hard to be sure why she was such an unattractive child . |
| 56 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 57 | In Berry , where Angevin and Capetian possessions lay intermingled , it was hard to be loyal to one allegiance only . |
| 58 | It was hard to be certain but she was pretty sure he had n't , and she imagined she must have assumed he was on duty at the hospital . |
| 59 | I would think that was false to be honest . |
| 60 | It was just after this that I was privileged to be able to visit the British Museum and by the courtesy of Mr Rex Barker , son-in-law of the landlord of the Five Bells , Mr McCaffery , I was able to view and handle the remains of our oldest inhabitant . |