Example sentences of "[adj] to [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 . |