Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been right to be wary of any new involvement , to stop things before they went too far . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 're right to be wary of Andrew , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 3 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 4 | Chapter 1 noted that competitive conditions in many product markets are such that they are likely to be tolerant of managerial ineffectiveness and in some substantial deviations from the profit goal will not be incompatible with enterprise survival . |
| 5 | Serious issues of equity of provision arise in this context , since major cut-backs in relative resources are likely to be destructive of excellence , which serves in part as a national resource . |
| 6 | Take care when preparing vegetables — wash thoroughly , as any traces of soil are likely to be full of bacteria . |
| 7 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 8 | But present-day theorists are likely to be dismissive of what has been called ‘ writers ' speculation about their art ’ , finding it impressionistic and unsystematic . |
| 9 | Opted-out schools , operating in atomised isolation , in competition with each other and with the rump of the LEA system are unlikely to be capable of collective action in support of whole community needs . |
| 10 | Such studies are of patients in a tertiary care setting who are unlikely to be representative of all persons experiencing IBS symptoms . |
| 11 | These texts are unable to be critical of the framework within which prejudice and racism flourish . |
| 12 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 13 | She sounded doubtful , but McLeish decided it would be possible to be frightened of Giles Hawick . |
| 14 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 15 | While Prince Charles must be relieved to be free of a marriage which had become a sham , he , his family and in the end the British Government have met Diana 's terms . |
| 16 | She ought to be relieved to be free of his company for a while . |
| 17 | No , but what I have done is to give you my expert opinion that any developments within the conservation area er within the D thirty nine part of the conservation area would be likely to be destructive of the character of the ancient part of the village . |
| 18 | ‘ There are several problems a nurse returner might face when working for an agency , and it may be helpful to be aware of these in advance . |
| 19 | The Marines were supposed to be afraid of nothing , but the sight of the villagers clawing their way back into the world was too much . |
| 20 | Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months . |
| 21 | They were glad to be free of the flatboat and the smell of death that had been with them ever since the battle . |
| 22 | There they were able to be independent of the Iranian state authorities — a tradition that has continued since . |
| 23 | Other disputes arose and , in general , Comintern officials were inclined to be disparaging of their Latin American comrades . |
| 24 | From the tracks alone it is possible to be certain of the bipedal stance of certain dinosaurs , and to measure their stride . |
| 25 | Whereas it is impossible to identify the author of this Gospel , it is possible to be sure of one thing about him . |
| 26 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 27 | That is , the common ancestor of these phyla was much simpler in its anatomy than any of them , and the anatomical complexities ( e.g. segmented body plan , skeletal structures , image-forming eyes ) evolved independently in the different phyla , although it is impossible to be sure of this in the absence of an adequate fossil record before about 600 million years ago . |
| 28 | The end result is a novel in which it is impossible to be sure of anything . |
| 29 | It is easy to be tolerant of members of other races if one is confident of one 's own standing in society ; much harder if one is competing against immigrants for a council house and a low-paid job . |
| 30 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |