Example sentences of "[adj] they [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the political authority was to an extent dependent on the company 's sources of information , however suspect or inadequate they were seen to be ; according to one civil servant interviewed , the PSO requirement was ‘ basically calculated by taking on trust the figures which RENFE gave ’ . |
| 2 | That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that . |
| 3 | He said that the departure from Kabrit was a delightfully vague affair with nobody really having any clear idea of how long they were going to be away for , and not giving two hoots anyway . |
| 4 | Very soon after Prontosil and sulphanilamide became available they were shown to be active against malaria . |
| 5 | This new vision began to prove that the more you strip the documents the more mysterious they are found to be . |
| 6 | Already the refs have had long meetings working out just how strict or just how lenient they are going to be . |
| 7 | They said , they erm they said something or other they were going to be closing down somewhere in Cornwall because the Directory Enquiry service was not being used |
| 8 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |