Example sentences of "[vb base] to be happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others . |
| 2 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 3 | I 've taken the view that since you all appear to be happy with the provision made for you in I five , you do n't wish to make any comment ? |
| 4 | ACHINESE proverb has it that if you want to be happy for a week , get married ; for a month , kill a pig ; for a lifetime , plant a garden . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a time when we all want to be happy . |
| 6 | ACCORDING to the British Medical Journal , ‘ If you want to be happy for a night get drunk , for a year get married , and for a lifetime get a garden . ’ |
| 7 | And I still want to be that person ; I want to be happy ; I want to look good ; I want to command the situation I 'm in . |
| 8 | And so too , for some curious reason , did an injunction from his father many , many years before : if you want to be happy , keep out of the public eye . |
| 9 | And during this time I learned something very important-if you want to be happy , you must be free . |
| 10 | " I want to be happy but I ca n't be happy till I make you happy too , " Lally sang . |
| 11 | If you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around and then there is just one way , make a face , make a face , make it as happy as you can and make a face but spread a little joy around and then there is just one way |
| 12 | Make a face , make a face , make it as scary as you can and make a face , if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around and then there is just one way , make a face , |
| 13 | If you want to be happy and have a happy face then spread a little joy around and then there is just one way , make a face , make a face , make it as happy as you can and make a face , if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way . |
| 14 | If you want to be happy and have a happy face then spread a little joy around and then there is just one way , make a face , make a face , make it as happy as you can and make a face , if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way . |
| 15 | make a face , make a face , make it as scary as you can and make a face , if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around and then there is just one way |
| 16 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 17 | If you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way . |
| 18 | You deserve to be happy , Mo . ’ |
| 19 | THE GRIM Reaper gave Britain cause to be happy last night . |
| 20 | The animals seem to be happy and contented in their lives , it is only man who is melancholy . |
| 21 | I am especially interested in growing passion flowers with attractive foliage as they seem to be happy grown in reduced light conditions , therefore making excellent house plants . |
| 22 | I think its a case of the grass being greener on the other side , you know , you never seem to be happy with what you have yourself you always see it in somebody else , gosh I wish I had her hair or her skin or her body shape , you just never seem to be satisfied with what you 've got and yet other people see you as looking very attractive |
| 23 | I suspect that none of those companies would employ someone in a role of an accountant without proper examinations , or at least a part-qualified accountant with intentions to complete , yet they seem to be happy to promote staff to achieve ‘ recognition ’ by our Institute with formal testing of aptitudes , skills and abilities . |
| 24 | Jack Heery , assistant secretary of Wirral Deewatch , said : ‘ The authorities seem to be happy with a ‘ this year , next year , sometime , never ’ kind of approach . |
| 25 | First , as you discovered in exercise 10.1 , while the wealthier members of any society claim to be more happy than poorer members of that society , the cross-cultural association between the average amount of wealth in a country and the proportion who claim to be happy is extremely weak . |
| 26 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 27 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |