Example sentences of "[is] [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 2 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 3 | The company says that as well as launching an Am486 using Intel microcode , it still plans to go ahead with its clean version , which is due to be available in June , and production will be increased during the second half . |
| 4 | From the tracks alone it is possible to be certain of the bipedal stance of certain dinosaurs , and to measure their stride . |
| 5 | Whereas it is impossible to identify the author of this Gospel , it is possible to be sure of one thing about him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then it is possible to be selective by shooting the adults only . |
| 8 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 9 | A dull , cold , rainy day does not literally mean ‘ sadness ’ — it is possible to be happy on such a day — but it is so obviously a metaphor for sadness that when it appears in writing it has become a cliché , intended to trigger a predictable response . |
| 10 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 11 | Whether anyone 's willing to be receptive to a music that is not as seriously , purgatively ‘ innovative ’ as the post-punk noise that veers towards the Rough Trade arena , not quite as vulnerably half-original as the music of this year 's Gig Of The Century bill ( Ratio , Teardrop , Echo ) . |
| 12 | He 's afraid to be alone with her . |
| 13 | It is easier to be objective about , and therefore to recognise , the social bias of mathematics questions from abroad . |
| 14 | After all , most women do not look like cover girls , and the Jewish woman is free to be beautiful in an inner way , not as a clone of an advertisement . |
| 15 | So what is now the status of his later insistence that , ‘ Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil ’ ( 512 ) ? |
| 16 | Yet it is dangerous to be doctrinaire about precise significance . |
| 17 | In the context there is much to be optimistic about . |
| 18 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 20 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 21 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 . |
| 23 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 24 | It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one . |
| 25 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 26 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 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 | In the absence of any research findings , it is impossible to be sure about this , let alone quantify it . |
| 30 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |