Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [be] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
2 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |
3 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
4 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
5 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
6 | The only authentic way to be good is to be good ‘ for nothing ’ : that was to become the ringing insistence of her finest treatise , The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) . |
7 | Both behaviourism and ‘ humanistic ’ views would have us believe that to be affective is to be effective in setting up conditions for learning . |
8 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
9 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
10 | To be new was to be critical . |
11 | Dada and Aunt Tossie talked to each other with scarcely a pause , showing a concern for Maman 's silence as though to be silent was to be sick . |