Example sentences of "be [adj] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 2 | But both are things we must be prepared to do on occasion , and both are preferable to staying at home and watching a lot of odious rubbish on television . |
| 3 | The government has made it clear that redevelopment should , as far as possible , be in line with local planning policies but that where this is impossible new uses are preferable to leaving a large site derelict . |
| 4 | The oestrus cycle of the mouse is normally 4 days , and females are receptive to mating only at oestrus . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |
| 6 | And what should I do in another woman 's household , who have been used to managing my own ? |
| 7 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 8 | She had been used to teaching in a country where English was the second language . |
| 9 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 10 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 11 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 12 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 13 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 14 | He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time . |
| 15 | A major obstacle to the earlier realisation of Ludwig 's project was that the Soviets had not been used to calling galleries after private citizens , as in the West . |
| 16 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 17 | For years I 've been used to addressing the parson as ‘ vicar ’ . |
| 18 | And another thing — your sailors all seem very small to me , because I 've been used to looking up at people twenty metres tall . ’ |
| 19 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 20 | Well I suppose they 'd have been used to going there before you see . |
| 21 | Having come to the village with certain expectations they may only see what they expect to find and , since the local working population has long been used to avoiding overt conflict in the face of those who have the capacity to create trouble for them , the superficial calm of village life may remain . |
| 22 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 23 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 24 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
| 25 | Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing , |
| 26 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 27 | Teachers in the independent sector have long been used to doing this . |
| 28 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 29 | As a student in Trinity College he had been used to doing six hours a week . |
| 30 | Mr Hogan has n't been used to driving in the city traffic of recent years , and I had planned to go to Dublin to collect the samples of material . |