Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 The whole raison d'être of these devices and software is to enable copy-protection to be overcome .
2 The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career .
3 Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee .
4 Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph .
5 A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective .
6 It revealed Docherty to be a witty , compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past .
7 Denholm was totally unfitted to be a naval officer of any kind and his highly defective eyesight should have led to his automatic disbarment from any navy in the world .
8 AU heraldic insignia were shamingly torn from his coat , signifying that he was unfitted to be a knight .
9 He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King .
10 At the beginning of his tale , Mr Hingston points out that negligence over personal finance does not mean that he is unfitted to be Institute Treasurer .
11 Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit .
12 As American banks retrench , they will corner almost all the profitable business at home , leaving Europeans and a handful of Japanese banks to fight over deals that are either unprofitable or too risky to be of interest .
13 These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants .
14 What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece .
15 And there 's Howard himself , three quarters of an inch high , and a little too freshly complexioned to be true , climbing into his car , running upstairs to his office , ushering Felicity through lighted front doors , shaking hands , kissing cheeks …
16 For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League .
17 The requirement of leave is designed to weed out frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless cases ; but there is no reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes be frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless or that claims based on public law rights are particularly prone to be frivolous , vexatious or hopeless .
18 They are n't VL Bus compliant , so they 're proprietary and prone to be early orphans .
19 ‘ Love Lies Limp ’ was a hoot in its day , ‘ Life ’ impressed as a deranged protest anthem and ‘ Vibing Up The Senile Man ’ is still prone to be namechecked .
20 A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee .
21 This can be a critically important action as the human memory is notoriously selective , and loose-leaf and logbook notes are prone to be separated from the project plan .
22 This uncertainty is prone to be interpreted as " woolliness " by parents who prefer to trade in certitude " ( Briault and West 1990:21 ) .
23 ‘ Love Lies Limp ’ was a hoot in its day , ‘ Life ’ impressed as a deranged protest anthem and ‘ Vibing Up The Senile Man ’ is still prone to be namechecked .
24 How self-sufficient is it sensible to be ?
25 In the meantime it is sensible to be cautious .
26 I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty .
27 She looked too plain and sensible to be a ghost .
28 In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end .
29 The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement .
30 There 's nothing manly to be expected from Silvio , unless that English witch knows something the rest of us do n't .
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