Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 32 | Surely now just months before the Cornmill is due to open is the time to ensure the town 's assets such as easy town centre car parking are in good working order . |
| 33 | A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug . |
| 34 | Those for whom it was very easy to attend were either well-established family farms where the wife and son/daughter were working at home , or self-employed part-time farmers . |
| 35 | Less easy to implement is the suggested ‘ coaching ’ in social skills , in which the poorly accepted child has specific instruction on how to interact with peers in a positive way . |
| 36 | what is sad to see is that a player like tony dorigo has not yet scored a goal this season and the same for kelly — that is : our wide defenders has not ( yet ) been a threat to the opposite team — which — if i rememeber correctly — did happen a couple of seasons back with both Love-Machine Sterland and Tony getting the occasional goal . |
| 37 | Similarly in Lee v York Coach and Marine [ 1977 ] RTR 35 , a second-hand Morris car that was unsafe to drive was held unmerchantable even though the cost of repair was small . |
| 38 | Last time , she was here to help promote her new series of videos which , five years after their conception , she is delighted to see being made available to the public . |
| 39 | Inside the mouse 's body , of course , the poison that made it so easy to catch is still present and can cause serious damage to the unfortunate cat . |
| 40 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 41 | A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured . |
| 42 | Less easy to identify were personality traits which I believe are carried by Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 43 | However much a politician might desire to avoid involvement in the collectorship contests , it was virtually impossible to escape being drawn in if the friends were involved . |
| 44 | Selfishness is a part of basic survival instinct , therefore it is impossible to avoid being concerned with self when one does not believe anyone else is . |
| 45 | Central to service is the interaction between the member of staff and the customer and here lies a fundamental dichotomy — in many service industries such as hospitality , the employee who has the most important job of serving the customer is frequently the lowest paid , the most unskilled and the inexperienced and with the highest labour turnover . |
| 46 | The program is fast and simple to use being menu driven and has excellent printed and on-line documentation . |
| 47 | Such a theme was , and still is , at the centre of debate throughout all Western societies , but what was really surprising for the Japanese to read was the clear attribution , from a Westerner , that a limited state role was one of the most important reasons why Japanese was destined to be the ‘ Number One ’ . |
| 48 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |
| 49 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |
| 50 | Less easy to determine is precisely what impact the newcomers , a familiar mixture of trade union officials and members of the teaching profession , would have on the political hue of the parliamentary party . |
| 51 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 52 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 53 | The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion . |
| 54 | For instance , Hickey includes many conversational passages that purport to be verbatim records , but must be reconstructions of what Hickey thought was appropriate to have been said on the occasion . |
| 55 | ‘ Already more than two dozen companies with schemes similar to TOP are members of Quality Scotland , and there are between 50 and 60 in the pipeline . ’ |
| 56 | The Sutton pupils were very relieved to have been accepted by their new partners . |
| 57 | Impossible to have been self-inflicted . |
| 58 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 59 | Well , nothing is real , we are fortunate to have been reminded by Candy Flip , so who was that quote referring to ? |
| 60 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |