Example sentences of "to be [adj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I principally object to are all our dreary , smug books about growing up and coming to terms with oneself , that … are merely another brand of conformity … . |
| 2 | Heron is understood to be confident its rescheduling programme , backed by a mass of financial information contained in three volumes , will be accepted by bankers and bondholders . |
| 3 | To be successful his company must have a unique range of products and services which can be readily distinguished from the competition . |
| 4 | Though it ca n't book them until it starts to deliver on November 30 , president Joel Applebaum expects it to be profitable its first fiscal quarter ending February . |
| 5 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 7 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 8 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 9 | WE MIGHT well be stirred by the sudden prospect of ruins , but once we knew them to be artificial our pleasure would evaporate , ’ wrote Kenneth Clark in his 1928 ‘ Gothic Revival ’ . |
| 10 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |
| 11 | To be persuasive your meaning needs to be clear . |
| 12 | But in the same column Modigliani 's hand seems to be guiding her pen when she raises the question of the Turkish Jews in France , ordered to leave the country . |
| 13 | Even Karelius , a Beethoven admirer , felt that it could have been improved , though to be fair his attention had often been distracted by Louise Müller and audience reaction to her . |
| 14 | To be fair his game did exceed that . |
| 15 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |