Example sentences of "[adj] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 2 | Yes , well in well I 've got some photos of this to be inside somewhere . |
| 3 | I want all this to be in the open , to be accepted , I want truth to be told . |
| 4 | Section 38(1) allows this : ( I ) if necessary to substantiate a name or address ; ( 2 ) if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing this is necessary : ( i ) for the suspect 's own protection ; ( ii ) to prevent him from causing physical injury to any other person ; ( iii ) to prevent loss or damage to property ; ( iv ) to ensure his appearance in court ; ( v ) to prevent interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences ; ( vi ) juveniles can also be detained in custody if the custody officer believes this to be in the juvenile 's own interests . |
| 5 | Thus , in deciding , for example , whether to close down an unprofitable factory and make those working in it redundant , the directors are required to consider the effect of closure on the employees , but they are nevertheless under a duty to shut the factory if they believe this to be in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 6 | Any party who is legally represented may be excluded from all or any part of the proceedings if the court considers this to be in the child 's interests having regard to the matters to be discussed or evidence likely to be given ( FPCR , r16(2) ; FPR , r4.16(2) ) . |
| 7 | The court may exclude the child from all or any part of the proceedings if it considers this to be in his interests having regard to matters to be discussed or evidence likely to be given . |
| 8 | Thus in Corfield v Sevenways Garage Ltd [ 1985 ] RTR 109 , a car repairer sold a car from his garage forecourt and the Divisional Court held this to be in the course of business even though selling was an infrequent side line . |
| 9 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
| 10 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 11 | As American banks retrench , they will corner almost all the profitable business at home , leaving Europeans and a handful of Japanese banks to fight over deals that are either unprofitable or too risky to be of interest . |
| 12 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 13 | In the opposite direction is Tilly Manor in West Harptree , which looks altogether too French to be in north Somerset . |
| 14 | To prefer solitude with a book or a record-player is after all to have a case to answer — ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ — though not , as some would say , an unanswerable case . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ is an American song , after all , and it is not on the whole a British sentiment . |
| 16 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 17 | Everyone on the audition panel is prepared to be on your side and supportive . |
| 18 | David might not be his real kith and kin , but he was honest , and he was hard-working … willing to be at his beck and call and to labour long hours , with only a pittance for his troubles . |
| 19 | Bovril and Oxo do supply a few calories , but too few to be worth counting , and can provide a nice , hot , comforting drink on a dieting evening . |
| 20 | As with Creature Comforts , Lowe Howard-Spink 's work for Tesco , which won the campaign of the year in services , was deemed by some to be beyond its first flush of freshness , but its impact on consumer perceptions continues to impress . |
| 21 | Instead royal power passed now to Alhred , a representative , according to the Anglian genealogies , of a quite separate line of descent from Ida though the way one annalist observes that Alhred was said by some to be of the lineage of Ida implies that he was regarded by others as an intruder into the kingship ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 22 | He is aware that , absorbing and stimulating as it is , his answer to the question of consciousness will seem to some to be on a par with ‘ 42 ’ , the celebrated answer to life , the universe and everything . |
| 23 | Exciting to be with … |
| 24 | We often had to work through the night to get the stage ready in time , but it was exciting to be in one of the Queen 's palaces at Christmas . |
| 25 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 26 | He is different , Florence Ames thought , he has n't anything to say because he is embarrassed to be with me . |
| 27 | You know , that is a good test of your relationship with a person if there is a sense in which you are embarrassed to be with them , and there 's long periods of silence it 's a pretty good test that it 's not a deep relationship you have with them . |
| 28 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 29 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 30 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |