Example sentences of "it be [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're right about it being good just to be in the premier league and be one of the better teams . |
| 2 | It 's nice no to be forgotten about as well . |
| 3 | It 's rare nowadays to be in any form of employment without being connected to constant assessment of performance . |
| 4 | And it 's , it 's , it 's vague enough to be able to do that . |
| 5 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 6 | It 's bad enough to be in prison for something you have n't done , but to be in prison and to be an ex-policeman as well is er something else . |
| 7 | One of the rats is just sitting in the corner and I wonder if maybe it 's smart enough to be depressed . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , it 's improbable enough to be true . |
| 9 | Do n't dither here ; it 's steep enough to be noticed very quickly , and the moves back left above the overlap need presence of mind . |
| 10 | Now it 's fair enough to be cautious when two big men are attacking somebody else , but I would n't say it was unreasonable to expect someone to make a telephone call and alert the police . |
| 11 | It 's easier now to be honest . |
| 12 | It is wide enough to be liberally interpreted and would cover pregnancy-related illness , miscarriages and abortions . |
| 13 | It is good therefore to be able to mention his first album for Blue Note from last year — ‘ Landmarks ’ ( ) . |
| 14 | It is good therefore to be able to record that at least one such effort scored a stunning success . |
| 15 | The only merit of the expression is that it is vague enough to be used under all circumstances without the slightest risk ; it is a favourite of official jargon today . |
| 16 | In small matters , it is easy enough to be guided by conventional loyalty . |
| 17 | It is easy enough to be obscure and esoteric , much more difficult to be lucid and memorable to all . |
| 18 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 19 | This combines the best of both worlds , as it is sturdy enough to be used in the studio but can also be folded and used for field work . |
| 20 | This combines the best of both worlds , as it is sturdy enough to be used in the studio but can also be folded and used for field work . |
| 21 | I think it is important here to be absolutely clear about ‘ quality ’ as it is , certainly , a vital characteristic of most advertising : it is , above all , the agency 's creative department 's job to achieve a level of quality appropriate to its work . |
| 22 | ‘ We believe that it is unlikely now to be reversed and in our opinion this issue should now be regarded as closed . ’ |
| 23 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 24 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 25 | But it was great just to be asked to come out here . |
| 26 | I was a member of his party , one of his retinue , and when the great Henry lashed out it was dangerous even to be in the same room as the king 's enemy . |
| 27 | On the dawn of another new season ( England A play county champions Essex in a four-day match beginning at Lord 's on Monday , both sides apparently being restricted to eleven players ) it was uplifting yesterday to be reminded of the Grand Match . |
| 28 | It was bad enough to be slumped here like a heap of old clothes . |
| 29 | However , my last signal of any importance was somewhat strange in sound ; it was flat and sounded like iron , but it was positive enough to be worth digging . |
| 30 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |