Example sentences of "to be [adv] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | An older history brought this idea forward to a new era : we were brought up to be simply grateful for being alive , guilty at the fact of our existence . |
| 2 | The mineral to be most wary of is calcium , which can toughen some grains when used during cooking . |
| 3 | And I know you to be beautiful and to be most worthy to be my wife . |
| 4 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 5 | She supposed you had to be pretty thick-skinned to be a Member of Parliament . |
| 6 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 7 | Investments that appear to be too good to be true often are . |
| 8 | Group 2 's justification for this was echoed unanimously : ( c ) and ( g ) were felt to be too repetitive to be placed side by side . |
| 9 | For some , the crime may even pay : thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s , when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived , two of the main executives involved were later promoted ( Vandivier 1972 : 33 ) . |
| 10 | His approach is a clear indication that the apparent rigours of Faccenda are now being mitigated by judges because the definition of trade secrets given in that case has been found to be too narrow to be workable . |
| 11 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 12 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 13 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 14 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
| 15 | When his estimate is replaced by a more realistic one , the predicted parallax turns out to be too small to be detectable by Brahé 's instruments . |
| 16 | See Davies v Davies ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 359 where a covenant which sought to restrain trade " so far as the law allows " was found to be too uncertain to be enforced . |
| 17 | Omnibus editions of novels tend to be too heavy to be read with comfort . |
| 18 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |
| 19 | Though the Court of Appeal is also a court of supervision , it appears to be too busy to be able to devote as much time and thought as is needed to such cases . |
| 20 | ‘ He did n't seem to be too happy to be here , that 's all , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But with cats it seems to be too common to be explained in this way . |
| 22 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 23 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 24 | But these cats had to be totally black to be really evil , in the minds of the pious worshippers . |
| 25 | Why should it have to be so difficult to be taken seriously ? |
| 26 | I was still under-housemaid , because you had to be very clever to be a head housemaid or head still-room maid ; and I said : |
| 27 | I started with the knowledge , from my experience of the world , that a cat is likely to be very unhappy at being stuck under a gate ; that a human , by virtue of greater intelligence and manual dexterity is likely to be able to free such a cat ; that humans generally like to alleviate the suffering of pets ; and that old women in British society have an — often misplaced — belief in the practical abilities of men . |
| 28 | You have to be very young to be really altruistic in love . ’ |
| 29 | But what you 've got to be very careful about is that if you go into a roundabout in that position and you get somebody in that position who is also going the same way and there 's a pinch point there , that 's the danger . |
| 30 | You had to be very courageous to be a democrat . |