Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospects for management buy-outs are really very bleak , the reason for that is that the franchises which we 're hearing about are likely to be very short , the franchisee will own no assets , no land , no rolling stock , nothing with which to go to the bank as security for loan . |
| 2 | Some minerals seem to survive more or less unaltered even after being subject to prolonged weathering , whereas others decompose very rapidly . |
| 3 | Lyons flies out to Brunei this week to take charge of the national team less than six months after being surplus to requirements at Huddersfield Town . |
| 4 | that 's it , I was , I was , I must of been addictive to the Coke |
| 5 | well look erm , my Lord the fact that , I , I think the answer would go like this , that , if the agent had sued the name then the defence would of been similar to that which is raised here , erm , but it would probably , it would of had additional elements because the name would have been enforcing through a , a , a slightly a slightly different |
| 6 | Could of been allergic to something was she ? |
| 7 | you must of been dead to the world , what with working |
| 8 | You can pay for , a group of you if you want , you know , i if some of are happy to , you know , there 'll be two or three of you that will help . |
| 9 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 10 | Also , his different bonds to conformity are not fully independent of each other , with a tendency towards being reducible to the primary bond of attachment — particularly to parents . |
| 11 | Elisabeth was grateful that the Colonel had no intention of being unkind to his wife . |
| 12 | But of course the human body is simply not capable of being subject to such control over prolonged periods . |
| 13 | These are capable of being subject to interpretation and identification , and also provide answers to the question of ‘ when ’ by examining sequences and dates . |
| 14 | Many industrialists and people from local authorities on both sides of the political spectrum are saying , ’ We should have more power over the decisions that affect our lives ’ , instead of being subject to arbitrary decision making from institutions down here . |
| 15 | Instead of being akin to a photograph , it is more comparable to a photomontage . |
| 16 | So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 17 | Patiently Rain concentrated on the windows , instead of being alert to every sound . |
| 18 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |
| 19 | Olongapo has the distinction of being adjacent to the US naval base in Subic Bay . |
| 20 | Scarcity , combined with the positive quality of being resistant to wear , has made platinum more valuable than gold . |
| 21 | For , instead of being tantamount to the mysterious suggestion that actions are uncaused , the claim that they are autonomous can be interpreted as a summing up of the individualist view that they must be explained , at least in part , by appealing to the intentional properties of individuals . |
| 22 | This leaves MI5 in the enviable position of being accountable to no one nor having to explain anything it does or is alleged to have done . |
| 23 | It was the result of being obedient to God . |
| 24 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 25 | The idea of being nice to someone because they were going to leave you their money was not pleasant ; Tom often told himself this , but it was the reason for his going to see his grandmother . |
| 26 | In his constituency , the pressures of being nice to people , opening fetes , and being one of the lads had driven Grunte to seek the comforts of alcohol — that necessary anaesthetic without which politics would soon become intolerable . |
| 27 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 28 | It was a raw cold too , the cold of being close to the ocean , a wet cold — — if that is not a contradiction for a temperature down around — -12°C ( 10°F ) . |
| 29 | Here the owners saw the advantages of being close to their raw material of steel , their power supply from coal , and their markets in Glasgow and along the Clyde valley . |
| 30 | From the late Felix Vishnevski to the painter Ilya Glazunov , every major collector has had the reputation of being close to the authorities , in the unfavourable sense of the phrase . |