Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | This theme — the need to be fair to ‘ the majority ’ — emerges again and again in this document 's defence of the rule , and bolsters up the most tenuous arguments . |
| 32 | ‘ Daddy , there 's no need to be rude to Miles . ’ |
| 33 | If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph . |
| 34 | All three Synods have some common features , a desire to be attentive to the circumstances of today 's world , a desire to deepen our mutual understanding of what it means to be the church , following our different callings and collaborating in our common mission , and a call to renew our sense of being an evangelising church . |
| 35 | It is conceded that this was a mistake , flowing from a desire to be fair to the defence . |
| 36 | ‘ Stay with me , ’ Maggie said without any thought at all , just with a great desire to be able to be near him . |
| 37 | Such sentiments have been strongly rejected by the Conservative government , which considers its drive towards popular capitalism to be open to all members of society . |
| 38 | When they visit I expect my husband to be polite to them . |
| 39 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 40 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 41 | Dysart 's no fun to be married to , you know . |
| 42 | Apollinaire had recently finished writing Le Bestiaire au Cortège d'Orphée and felt the name to be applicable to Delaunay 's work , partly because it was more lyrical and sensuous than the rather austere Cubism of the period , and also because he saw it as a form of ‘ peinture pure ’ which had analogies with music . |
| 43 | For the L-form concept to be relevant to the understanding of gram-negative sepsis it is not necessary to dismiss the part played by endotoxin . |
| 44 | It would not be consistent with the obligation for a national court to be subject to a precondition such as a requirement that it may not look behind the text of a national implementing measure unless it is first found to be ambiguous . |
| 45 | I know too much about the guys who write the rest of the stuff to be able to stomach it . ’ |
| 46 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 47 | But Labour councillors believe flats will be popular with pensioners offered the chance to be close to the town centre and other local amenities . |
| 48 | a mechanism for the scope of a logical object to be local to a document plus those documents it links to . |
| 49 | The issue of public interest immunity arises because , quite apart from the considerations underlying the implied undertaking , the particular class of documents here in question is clearly recognised on authority to be subject to such a claim . |
| 50 | The findings of the research will be presented in various academic and non-academic publications and written in a manner to be relevant to those engaged in executive and occupational re-training . |
| 51 | How can it be consistent — perhaps the Prime Minister will answer the question now , since he did not answer the Leader of the Opposition — for the Prime Minister 's policy to be as expressed in the statement but for that policy to be opposed to a comprehensive test ban treaty ? |
| 52 | This is most especially the case in industrial society ; in London , for example , there is no ‘ natural ’ environment to be opposed to the socially constructed form . |
| 53 | The fact that it must always involve codification and therefore also interpretation means that ‘ historical knowledge has no claim to be opposed to other forms of knowledge as a supremely privileged one ’ ( 263 ) . |
| 54 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 55 | Teachers regard time for cooperative planning to be crucial to effective learning and teaching for the wide range of ability their pupils have . |
| 56 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 57 | 85% found ECAs helpful in clarifying standards and 92% found the ECA role to be appropriate to a devolved assessment system . |
| 58 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 59 | A more general equilibrium also requires the total demand for money to be equal to the total supply of money : this is referred to as equilibrium in the money market . |
| 60 | Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ? |