Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect all horses that are well looked after to be cheerful , but like people , some display it more than others . |
| 2 | That 's all I can think of to be honest with you . |
| 3 | mm , I do n't know I think a lot of the sound travels through the wood , I think that 's all part of it , you know , I do n't think you 'd have very good erm quality out of to be honest with you |
| 4 | Imposing a restriction which is true should not worsen the ability of the explanatory variables to explain the dependent variable or , alternatively , relaxing the restriction and allowing the estimators of to be different should not lead to a much better fitting equation if are in fact not different . |
| 5 | Here , to differ is the equivalent of to be different , that is to say , the infinitive expresses its event as a state , more precisely as a resulting state , in this type of use . |
| 6 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 7 | But the pleasures are , of course , those of youth , and Lewis at the age of forty seems to have forgotten what it was like to be young . |
| 8 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 9 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 10 | A bit nosey , that was all , and Margaret understood what it was like to be nosey . |
| 11 | What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham ? |
| 12 | I mean I know what it 's like to be Black . |
| 13 | Designed by women who know exactly what it 's like to be pregnant . |
| 14 | He also knew what it was like to be alive and young . |
| 15 | This next section takes you through an exploration of what it 's like to be assertive . |
| 16 | When she was about three months pregnant , and feeling totally rejected by everyone , she got into a very depressed state , staying in her room for several days without moving , wondering if this was what it was like to be dead . |
| 17 | They have seen what it is like to be unable to meet their mortgage repayments and be faced with redundancy and unemployment . |
| 18 | Let us imagine , as the first dawning of objective thought , a child wanting another helping at dinner , remembering what it is like to be sick , and telling himself what he has often been told by his mother , ‘ Do n't , or you 'll be ill ’ . |
| 19 | For the first time in her life , she learned what it was like to be jealous of me . |
| 20 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 21 | In the example above , so that children might imagine what it is like to be blind , the teacher invites them to deprive themselves temporarily of their sight . |
| 22 | I doubt it , because it is inconceivable , just as you can not imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and then gifted with sight ( but of course I can ) . |
| 23 | He was talking about what it was like to be unemployed and , typical John , was making his depressing position sound not too bad . |
| 24 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 25 | The problem with the work situation is that sometimes we tend to settle in , and there are you know , there are people who it 's very very difficult to be trusted , to be trusting with to be co-operative with because we tend to feel that they 're not the trusting or co-operative type . |
| 26 | ( 17 ) The takeover of the target may cause loan agreements and other contracts which it has entered into to be determinable , or for the other contracting party to be entitled to exercise valuable option or pre-emption rights . |
| 27 | He certainly has not become an angel overnight , but his more extreme behaviour has been left behind and usually he can be relied upon to be helpful and co-operative . |
| 28 | Under pressure from government economic policies and spending cuts , the predisposition to rethink conventional provision is slight , except in so far as as competition for student numbers , effective teaching hours and fee-income intensifies the concentration on popular recreational and leisure pursuits , rather than innovative and developmental work in areas which can not be relied upon to be lucrative . |
| 29 | English , on the other hand , has to be able to distinguish dental from labiodental and alveolar places of articulation for to be distinct from and and for to be distinct from and ; this requires an additional feature that most languages do not need , and this could be seen as specific task for the learner of English . |
| 30 | English , on the other hand , has to be able to distinguish dental from labiodental and alveolar places of articulation for to be distinct from and and for to be distinct from and ; this requires an additional feature that most languages do not need , and this could be seen as specific task for the learner of English . |