Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] to be " in BNC.

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31 Open years are syndicate years of account for which liabilities are too huge or unpredictable to be reinsured into a successor account .
32 They have n't been put off science , they have n't decided that it 's unwomanlike , or unladylike to be a scientist ?
33 Despite the limitations of the horizontal loom , it is eminently suited to the nomads ' way of life , being both easy to assemble and take down , and not too large or cumbersome to be carried by donkey or camel .
34 Woollens that were too worn or felted to be unpicked were cut up to make hats , body warmers and bed socks to wear in the shelter .
35 When the Thrale children played games he participated — racing them barefoot , or pleased to be cast as the elephant in their zoo of animals .
36 You get what in reality is a new set of rules of law — rules which you can rely on as likely or certain to be applied uniformly in the future .
37 In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important .
38 Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one .
39 There was not an Indian or Mexican to be seen .
40 Models of the item being marketed are useful when the product being sold is too large or bulky to be physically displayed .
41 Section 7 provides simply that ‘ The decisions of the Tribunal ( including any decisions as to their jurisdiction ) shall not be subject to appeal or liable to be questioned in any court . ’
42 On an application the court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application whether the question arises between members or alleged members , or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand , and may decide ‘ any question necessary or expedient to be decided for rectification … . ’
43 School-based and , finally , faculty or departmental to be organised .
44 In 1893 while recovering from a bout of influenza he wrote You will see from this heading that I am not dead yet , nor likely to be .
45 So , only if the trade union representatives were not , whether actually or in effect , appointed by the union or , if appointed by it were neither accountable to it nor liable to be dismissed by it would that difficulty be avoided , at least in principle .
46 ( i ) the speeding up of routines which would otherwise be too slow and impractical to be used : this is particularly significant in the area of graphics where large figures can be produced at a good speed and some reasonably large-scale movement becomes possible ( ii ) the addition of extra facilities not generally available in BASIC : for example , different forms of character input instruction , including timing , displaying a pre-stored picture ‘ instantly ’ , and automatic device initialization ( see next section ) .
47 Would it be right to conclude from his remarks also that in place of the stipulations that exist — which are much too rigid and impractical to be accepted — he would allow the co-ordination of deficits by the market ?
48 Everyone in Club World looked all hushed and grateful to be there , but not Luke , who looked exhaustively displeased .
49 In England , a Scots Magistrate at Bow Street ordered that bagpipes were a noisy instrument and unsuitable to be played in Regent Street .
50 There was little she was free to tell him , but he was very interested in what she said and sorry to be interrupted by his telephone .
51 Mildew is too prevalent and persistent to be wiped out completely , but those three factors are the key to helping our roses to resist it .
52 If a single phrase of Beethoven 's ninth symphony is sufficiently distinctive and memorable to be abstracted from the context of the whole symphony , and used as the call-sign of a maddeningly intrusive European broadcasting station , then to that extent it deserves to be called one meme .
53 He is at present in exile in Magadan and due to be released in December 1984 .
54 The matter had gone quiet since summer 1991 , but is due now to burst forth again , this time with the real substance of the evidence from all parties , as a consequence of an opinion given 3 December last by Judge Carol Huff in the New York Supreme Court and due to be confirmed in a Court Order last month .
55 And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year .
56 Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun Microsystems Inc to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time : its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon ; subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ -type COSE toolkit in first half 1994 .
57 Its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon .
58 SCOTVEC 's new Quality Framework , announced last year and due to be implemented in August , will make it possible for centres to take devolved responsibility for a range of quality assurance processes .
59 The Australian government announced they would not sign the Antarctic Minerals Convention , designed to control any mineral exploitation there and due to be signed by all nations claiming territory there .
60 Continuing disagreement between the United States and the European Communities ( EC ) , on the issue of agricultural subsidies , threatened to obstruct the conclusion of the current " Uruguay Round " of multilateral trade negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , under way for four years and due to be finalized by the end of December [ see pp. 36508-09 ; 36605 ; 37227-28 ; 37476 ] .
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