Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing undesirable to be seen in the plush frame . |
| 2 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 3 | There 's nothing manly to be expected from Silvio , unless that English witch knows something the rest of us do n't . |
| 4 | But I think I had imagined it would it would allow , if it was wanted , it would allow I eleven to be overridden it would be one of the things it would be an exception to . |
| 5 | As the Iranians quickly discovered , there was always someone willing to be duped . |
| 6 | Often , all that is required is for individuals to feel that there is someone willing to be supportive and understanding of their feelings , willing to listen to their problems , and to discuss alternative strategies for coping with their social distress . |
| 7 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 8 | Am I supposed to be following you , Number One ? ’ |
| 9 | Ah now which one am I supposed to be using here ? |
| 10 | Well when I was thirteen I supposed to be having b bad trouble and I went to doctor 's and instead of knocking off school at waiting till I was fourteen , I 'd finished at thirteen . |
| 11 | ‘ But who am I supposed to be talking to ? ’ |
| 12 | Am I supposed to be showering you with gifts right now , pretty things , baubles you can — ? ’ |
| 13 | Am I supposed to be ashamed of an ordinary male impulse ? |
| 14 | And am I supposed to be grateful ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Am I supposed to be impressed by this little bit of unhurried pantomime ? ’ he enquired coolly . |
| 16 | Am I supposed to be flattered by the fact that you think I resemble a small magical creature , who , as far as my childhood recollections goes , always wears a stupid hat and has pointed ears ? ’ |
| 17 | Am I supposed to be happy ? |
| 18 | Not only was I unable to be certain of Miss Kenton 's desire to rejoin the staff here , I had not , of course , even discussed the question of additional staff with Mr Farraday since that first preliminary meeting over a year ago . |
| 19 | I do my best to be totally honest and fair , whoever is at the other end . |
| 20 | I promise to do my best to be obedient to God , to my parents and to the Brownie Law and to give happiness to somebody every day . |
| 21 | ‘ But from now on I 'll do my best to be as chaste as a Catholic priest . ’ |
| 22 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 23 | There is nothing much to be proud of , to be sure , in all this ; and the self-sufficient hero , who knows it , is nothing of a boaster . |
| 24 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 25 | The soldierly figure , who , confident and elegant in light tweeds , now walked through it was that genuine article for which Canon Wheeler mistakenly thought himself possible to be taken . |
| 26 | Some consider the level of their entertaining to be over-lavish . |
| 27 | It left her free to be moved by the whole range of feeling , which was fragmented by personal action : the enmeshed lovers , the pleasure of the children , the beauty of her daughter , the fondling of the gentle night air , the great sky deepening gradually but surely , as it was being veiled in film on film of darker blues and velvets , it was all for her . |
| 28 | Its supposed to be focused on the seamless integration of applications , data , user interfaces and other computing resources among heterogeneous systems . |
| 29 | Next week its supposed to be . |
| 30 | that his or her conduct as a director makes him or her unfit to be concerned in the management of a company . |