Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 61 | The first case to be subject to the new legislation was that of a depraved father who sexually abused and terrorised his two young daughters . |
| 62 | ‘ That gives us the freedom to be rude to each other ? ’ |
| 63 | If there is any provision contained in these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements of which they form part which causes or would cause these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangement of which they form part to be subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 then that provision shall not take effect until the day after particulars of these Guidelines or any agreement or arrangements ( as the case may be ) shall have been duly furnished to the Director General of Fair Trading pursuant to that Act . |
| 64 | In 1421 they entered a contract to be loyal to each other without dissimulation or fraud . |
| 65 | These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff . |
| 66 | What is needed is a willingness to be open to fresh possibilities — to be prepared for a constant voyage of exploration . |
| 67 | A common desire and willingness to be subordinate to it is the essential pre-condition of a parliamentary state . |
| 68 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 69 | Secondly , we need to thoroughly review the long term future of our own examination system which willprobably need to be pitched at degree level to be acceptable to the Privy Council . |
| 70 | I know I am not such a blameless one as should be saying it , but try and find it in your heart to be good to her , for she is lovely . ’ |
| 71 | Holden Caulfield , narrator of ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ , and Lucy Snowe , narrator of ‘ Villette ’ , both criticise their societies and acquaintances , and struggle to be true to their own principles despite pressure to conform , |
| 72 | Notice that eqn ( 10.3d ) has the effect of requiring the wave to be orthogonal to the time axis as well as to the direction of propagation in space . |
| 73 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 74 | It is expected that the process will make it possible for rare and fragile mummies and other bodies such as the European bog bodies and the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public without putting the originals at risk . |
| 75 | Attica after Kleisthenes , which allowed a man to be loyal to and to participate in the affairs of his deme , and also to join in making the city 's decisions , was another such attempt to reconcile city and countryside . |
| 76 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 77 | The second stream speaks of the Lord now delivered from the limitations and particularity of human life to be present to his people at all times and places . |
| 78 | It seems most surprising that the breweries consider the large open space to be the pub 's ideal internal form , or believe the artificial , standardised ‘ historic ’ pub interior to be preferable to genuine historic detail , when the original internal divisions and features are essential elements of the historic character that customers expect when entering such a building . |
| 79 | Criticism of those who see concretion to be fundamental to religion may be quite beside the point . |
| 80 | In what ways , if any , do they perceive Marxism to be relevant to Latin American conditions ? |
| 81 | In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right . |
| 82 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 83 | His conduct was described by Megarry V-C as amounting to gross and repeated breaches of his implied obligation to be faithful to the plaintiffs . |
| 84 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 85 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 86 | The appallingly self-centred nature of this conclusion can only rebound against the man who has uttered it , and Shakespeare was too sensitive a poet and human being to be blind to such a reader reaction . |
| 87 | Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard . |
| 88 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |
| 89 | You 've reason to be grateful to me . |
| 90 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |