Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 2 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 3 | She should n't have been — should have been glad to be rid of her . |
| 4 | At the Tribute and subsequently in Seville , it must have been great to be surrounded by so many people who openly acknowledge Queen as a huge influence . |
| 5 | It must have been awful to be separated from her children , as she and many other Jamaican mothers were . |
| 6 | It must have been good to be home . |
| 7 | If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role . |
| 8 | It is understood that Mr Major wanted her to be prisons minister , and there was speculation last night that she might have been reluctant to be back in harness with Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , who was her boss at the Health Department during the eggs affair . |
| 9 | White and cream and yellow and gold did not to everyone seem entirely appropriate shades to represent the Headleands , whose natural colouring , as in a party game , might have been supposed to be more primary , more violent , more extreme , more robust . |
| 10 | Some elders may have been obliged to be attached to objects or routines which in some way were exploitative , oppressive or otherwise caused suffering . |
| 11 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 12 | It would have been nice to be able to keep out of his way . |
| 13 | Juliet had been glad of her lie-in , but it would have been nice to be here with him . |
| 14 | As all 256 colours are displayed at once , the palette takes up quite a large proportion of the screen , and it would have been preferable to be able to select the ones used the most and create your own custom palette . |
| 15 | It was several months before anything significant happened in Edward 's life — by which time he was so sick of the stagnant war that he would have been prepared to be parachuted into the heart of Germany wearing a kilt . |
| 16 | But some young watchers will have been puzzled to be told that ‘ because she is a ship , not just a barge , she is , of course , self-propelled ’ . |
| 17 | A dangerous species is defined as ‘ a species ( a ) which is not commonly domesticated in the British Islands and ( b ) whose fully grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely , unless restrained , to cause severe damage or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe . ’ |