Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 2 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 3 | As grandparents they should be free to be detached , and to give time and care of a different and special kind , which harassed and busy parents are often not able to provide . |
| 4 | If it was now , they might be inclined to be physical ’ . |
| 5 | No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman . |
| 6 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |