Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 2 | There are spacious loungers , a bar providing waiter service to the garden terrace , a restaurant that opens onto the lovely gardens offering buffet style breakfast , and a mixed buffet and waiter service dinner . |
| 3 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
| 4 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 5 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 6 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 7 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
| 8 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 9 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
| 10 | We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances . |
| 11 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 12 | I think it would have been absurd to have imposed upon police authorities a uniform number |
| 13 | 8 Consider other forms of giveaway where products are unsuitable to offer as samples or gifts . |
| 14 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 15 | The seat has been Labour held since before 1945 . |
| 16 | The cones are receptive to colour and to higher lighting levels . |
| 17 | Environmentalists are right to argue for strong controls on the way waste is managed . |
| 18 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
| 19 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 20 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
| 21 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
| 22 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 23 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 24 | In Shenley , Hertfordshire , and Epsom , Surrey , plans are afoot to build residential houses , even though the plots of land are right smack inside the greenbelt . |
| 25 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 26 | They are right to do so , because it can lead to serious problems if it persists . |
| 27 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 28 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 29 | Tyacke 's critics are right to point out that he and other historians have been too preoccupied with the theological disputes within the academic communities of pre-civil war England . |
| 30 | These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality . |