Example sentences of "[prep] to [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 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 7 | In a few generations , of course , people would want girls again , and values and fashions would change … but in the meantime , what would it be like to be one of an endangered species ? |
| 8 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 9 | You never think what it 's like to be one of us . |
| 10 | It was an instant when the Dwarf found out what it was like to be one of the beautiful people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Had we forgotten what it was like to be young ? |
| 14 | Deborah Moggach talks to Olivia Abbott about what it was like to be young , embarrassed , and in Bristol |
| 15 | Imagine what it 's like to be 45 … |
| 16 | A bit nosey , that was all , and Margaret understood what it was like to be nosey . |
| 17 | What would it be like to be black and watch the election result in Cheltenham ? |
| 18 | I mean I know what it 's like to be Black . |
| 19 | If he was a nonentity , one of the lowest of the low , then he wanted his work to reveal what it was like to be such an unfortunate . |
| 20 | Several properly ambitious philosophers attempt to bring consciousness into view by speaking , with respect to a conscious thing , of what it is like to be that thing . |
| 21 | Designed by women who know exactly what it 's like to be pregnant . |
| 22 | He also knew what it was like to be alive and young . |
| 23 | This next section takes you through an exploration of what it 's like to be assertive . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They have seen what it is like to be unable to meet their mortgage repayments and be faced with redundancy and unemployment . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | For the first time in her life , she learned what it was like to be jealous of me . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |