Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Semantic structure and context ‘ operate either in the same direction as or counter to ’ linear modification ( Firbas , 1974 : 22 ) , but both are hierarchically superior to it . |
| 2 | Health education and nutritional information are widely available to everyone . |
| 3 | As you know , I am rather sympathetic to my countrymen . |
| 4 | I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly . |
| 5 | I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John . |
| 6 | ‘ I am most grateful to Hope Ward for sparing you , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 7 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 8 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind opening remarks . |
| 9 | I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that matter . |
| 10 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his statement and endorsement of the policy under which the security arrangements are conducted within the Province and for his reference to the rule of law . |
| 11 | I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for that expression of view . |
| 12 | I am most grateful to my hon. Friend . |
| 13 | I am most grateful to my hon. Friend . |
| 14 | I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend . |
| 15 | I am most grateful to my hon. Friend . |
| 16 | I am most grateful to my hon. and learned Friend . |
| 17 | I am most grateful to my hon. and learned Friend . |
| 18 | I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for his kind closing remarks . |
| 19 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in the North East , Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their counsel and support . |
| 20 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 21 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their continuing counsel and support . |
| 22 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 23 | I am most grateful to those of you who take classes for people who are unable to take part in our ordinary groups . |
| 24 | ‘ I am most indebted to you for your advice , Mr Stevens . |
| 25 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 26 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 27 | If you do n't , you 'll soon be out on your ear , so that they are all subjects of these persuasions , these moral persuasions , and then the overall society tends to criticize the values of the different sub-cultures within it , you see , and the Russians are rather nasty to the Baptists and we 're rather nasty to the Communists . |
| 28 | In the Machilidae the gonangulum has not evolved , so that the appendages of the genital segments are rather similar to those of the pregenital region of the abdomen , with the gonapophyses corresponding in position to the eversible vesicles ( see p. 435 ) . |
| 29 | These radar and optical data are rather similar to corresponding data for the Moon . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the basic directions of economic reform are rather similar to Hungary , though the initial position is quite different , in that Yugoslavia already had long experience of worker-managed firms as well as a high degree of monetary mismanagement ( including a spell of hyperinflation ) resulting from inability of the country 's federal structure to impose monetary discipline . |