Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are right to be so ashamed . |
| 2 | If we want to go further back in history ( and are prepared to be suitably eclectic ) we can find a similarly expressed contrast between Roundheads and Cavaliers . |
| 3 | Though the trend is one of improvement few City economists are prepared to be more optimistic than Mr Major 's own forecast for next year of £15billion . |
| 4 | But they are wrong to be so forlorn . |
| 5 | In it , he argues that women are free to be as nasty , rude , insulting and vicious as they like about men , but the reverse is not true . |
| 6 | they 're dead naff , right , cos Steve Wright in the afternoon as a thing , he says , he says , what do you want Essex girl and he 's said something funny she 'll , she 'll go , you crack me right up you do , you make me crack right up , right and they 're suppose and they are , well I do n't know , but they 're supposed to be really naff |
| 7 | Somebody comes quick and wants the caravan they 're supposed to be there ready ! |
| 8 | Yes , yes , I think in , I think in general one can certainly say that the more , and this touches on what said about personality types if a personality has a strongly developed superego themselves , they 're likely to be very independent , sometimes to the point of arrogance . |
| 9 | And I goes , I think they 're horrible to be quite honest , I do n't |
| 10 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 11 | This obviously is a very difficult question to answer , given the lack of detailed evidence about precisely those kinds of day-to-day support where gendered patterns are likely to be most apparent . |
| 12 | We recommend this Plan because it offers financial protection in no less than THREE important ways areas where you are likely to be most vulnerable should an accident strike . |
| 13 | Those heads who are likely to be most successful in marketing their schools are those who are competitive , egotistical , passionate and persistent . |
| 14 | Of course , some factors are more important than others : it is the job of empirical economists to investigate which are the most important factors and which policy measures are likely to be most successful in tackling the inflation problem . |
| 15 | This raises the question of exactly what kinds of experience are likely to be most helpful to a child who is experiencing difficulties with language and communication . |
| 16 | Find out which of the above programmes and their producers are likely to be most sympathetic to your style of music and remember the following : |
| 17 | The errors are likely to be most significant during the initiation of climb or descent , or on levelling out following a change in pitch attitude . |
| 18 | The NCCK plans to organise discussion groups and seminars on the subject of election procedures and the issues that are likely to be most important at election time . |
| 19 | As awareness of the importance of pensions continues to grow , particularly among older employees who are likely to be most valuable to you , a good pension scheme becomes a big help in a competitive labour market . |
| 20 | They are likely to be distinctly unimpressed by the policy implications of the taxonomic exercise undertaken by Coen and Hickman . |
| 21 | If the soil is too wet , only the most obvious features are likely to be clearly visible , while if the soil is too dry , no differences in soil colour and texture may be distinguishable at all . |
| 22 | However , these relations are likely to be geographically unstable . |
| 23 | ( Macaulay 1978:134 ) Problems of this kind are likely to be particularly common in divergent dialect areas where two identifiable and radically different phonologies have in the past influenced each other , later to become an integrated part of the linguistic resources available to the speech community . |
| 24 | Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources . |
| 25 | The new ‘ E ’ allowance posts are likely to be particularly important . |
| 26 | Children are less competent at handling explanations in the deductive mode than in the empirical or intentional modes , yet deductive explanations are likely to be particularly important in educational contexts . |
| 27 | However , both of these issues are likely to be particularly important for women throughout the disability career and , consequently , are also likely to be crucial factors shaping their experience of ageing . |
| 28 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 29 | With The Smiths , the songs are likely to be pretty good . |
| 30 | Even so , the first use of the Antiparachute are likely to be rather tentative and sporting . |