Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 2 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 3 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 4 | Much easier to be private in the country . ’ |
| 5 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 6 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
| 7 | When they visited Texas he asked why the young men seemed so gloomy when there was so much to be happy about , and in Cambridge he publicly embraced his old friend , Conrad Aiken , moving Aiken almost to tears . |
| 8 | But it was not so easy to be dismissive of the Incas . |
| 9 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 10 | Such phrases were a fashion of the time and sufficiently vague to be meaningless as a guide on any serious policy matter . |
| 11 | It is the plaintiff 's case that [ the agreement ] created no term sufficiently identifiable to be capable of recognition by the law , and that accordingly no tenancy was created . |
| 12 | The elephant and tapir of Sumatra and Borneo , the rhinoceros of Sumatra and the allied species of Java , the wild cattle of Borneo of the kind long supposed to be peculiar to Java , are now all known to inhabit some part or other of Southern Asia . |
| 13 | It startled her that he should know this much when she had tried so hard to be circumspect in making her enquiries . |
| 14 | Legally and socially , no country on earth tries so hard to be free of racism . |
| 15 | I should be so lucky to be able to . |
| 16 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 17 | This policing function is less likely to be present in the case of a monopolist , which does not face direct product market pressure . |
| 18 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 19 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Those young people undertaking YTS at colleges , or on community-based schemes , which were called mode B schemes , were less likely to be successful in entering the labour market when they graduated from their courses ( see the transcript of the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Fair play for Britain 's Blacks ’ , 6 July 1987 , p. 3 ) . |
| 21 | The House of Lords is less central to the nation 's affairs , less likely to be controversial in its activities and more courteous in the conduct of its proceedings . |
| 22 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 23 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 24 | Families are growing smaller and greater geographical mobility means that relatives are less likely to be close at hand in times of need . |
| 25 | In addition , Stemberger notes that lexical items from the closed class are less likely to be involved in sequencing errors ( in which lexical items occur in the wrong order in an utterance ) and in shift errors ( in which an item appears either too early or too late in an utterance ) . |
| 26 | This project aims to examine whether certain categories of statemented special needs children are more , or less likely to be involved in bully/victim problems within 8 mainstream schools in Sheffield ( 3 junior/middle and 5 secondary ) . |
| 27 | The IS902-PCR results may suggest that M avium subsp silvaticum is less likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease but may add to the significance of the IS900-PCR results . |
| 28 | Graduate husbands are less likely to be childless in their marriages than are graduate wives . |
| 29 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 30 | A hostile article is even less likely to be satisfactory to a reader . |