Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 2 | it is n't , it 's Bryony 's space suit , give her , otherwise she 'll be squeaking cos she wants her own , here 's yours James , you have your own , give that one to Bryony , here 's your space suit Bryony , you 'll need this if you 're going to the moon |
| 3 | Tony replied that : ‘ When decent people become irrational , something must be wrong if they are driven to such desperate acts . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |
| 5 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 6 | So we need to get some if we 're going to work on ordnance survey ones we 'll need to sort something on that . |
| 7 | No because it was funny cos we were talking to the lady . |
| 8 | He saw that the alternative was to suppose that cells become different because they are exposed to different external influences . |
| 9 | ‘ Sailors were the élite , ’ Daniel Farson observes ; ‘ guardsmen were less popular because they were known to be out for the money . ’ |
| 10 | I know all this because she was engaged to my brother . |
| 11 | It had seemed quite clear when I was talking to Aunt Kit . |
| 12 | ‘ I always found it very funny when I was referred to as Mr Laura Ashley , especially as I hated my own name , Bernard . ’ |
| 13 | The carrier arrived at the King Edward Docks and excitement ran high when it was learned to be the Wasp once again . |
| 14 | Claire was 15 months old when she was admitted to the children 's ward suffering from asthma . |
| 15 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 16 | Note that as the principal repayment reduces the loan outstanding so it is debited to that account . |
| 17 | Higher-than-expected entitlements levels , according to the Congressional Budget Office , is one of the main reasons why the deficit is bigger than it was expected to be in the 1990 budget agreement . |
| 18 | A lethal tree is growing out horizontally from the righthand bank , not visible until you are committed to the bend . |
| 19 | The smile froze on her face as his words , jocular though they were meant to be , slammed home with the force of a bullet . |
| 20 | Richard Baxter was drawn to the people of Kidderminster as much as they were drawn to him . |
| 21 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 22 | Still — I hope you enjoi reeding the buk as much as I 'm going to enjoi boiling it up with some vegtables and eeting it . |
| 23 | And that really I think is about it unless there are Interpretation of As much as I 'm going to . |
| 24 | To enjoy as much as she was going to for this time , she knew that , and she smiled and held him and kissed him when she felt the convulsion and heard his breath released . |
| 25 | The town is full of Tyrolean charm , and the naturally extended welcome to be found in this corner of Austria is every bit as warm as it 's reputed to be . |
| 26 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 27 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 28 | All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party . |
| 29 | He qualified in February , 1935 whereupon he was promoted to Sergeant . |
| 30 | That 's quite likely where it 's going to be going wrong . |