Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy was beginning to find it rather odd to be having this day out with her husband . |
| 2 | You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence . |
| 3 | Sometimes you 've got to be a little cruel to be kind ! |
| 4 | And , at the end of his busy career , he adds : ‘ It is rather interesting to be able to read The Times and The Northern Echo in the morning instead of at night . ’ |
| 5 | As the lorry braked ferociously in the lonely country road with a hiss of air brakes , and began to career backwards towards my Mini , its reversing lights two angry eyes beaming at me , I began to see that same skyline as the place I most wanted to be . |
| 6 | When I was 17 it was the place I most wanted to be |
| 7 | But according to Paul Holmes , Date could not return Minton 's affection and seemed always a little embarrassed to be the object of such attention . |
| 8 | Having campaigned from the moral high ground , the Nigerian Government is acutely embarrassed to be caught throwing stones from a glass house . |
| 9 | I 'm terribly sorry to be such a nuisance . ’ |
| 10 | But you 've got to , Terence said it 's so dear to be a member you have got to keep going to get your , your money back . |
| 11 | The management is extremely sorry to be leaving Mildenhall and in particular to be losing some of our team . |
| 12 | In another Kontron application , a modal-analysis grid created by IBAS programming is superimposed on an optical image of biotite granite above right ( field of view 4 × 4 millimetres ) to allow a preconfigured grey-level classification below right to be overridden by the user where necessary , thereby combining the advantages of expert interpretation with the speed of the computer . |
| 13 | Some fat women are so grateful to be desired that they will take whatever sex is offered ; others have very specific criteria for lovers , and even less choice . |
| 14 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 15 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems so awful to be standing there , hour after hour , doing the same thing , day after day . ’ |
| 17 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 18 | After the March 1991 releases , over 70 detainees were still held and were apparently due to be brought to trial in April . |
| 19 | Supporting evidence for the non-cooperation of p53 and K-ras in colorectal tumourigenesis comes from our own finding and that of others that the frequency with which p53 and K-ras mutants are found together in large bowel cancers is only that to be expected by chance . |
| 20 | In a series of 100 colorectal cancers analysed for K-ras mutation and p53 over expression , the proportion of tumours showing both abnormalities was only that to be expected by chance . |
| 21 | The contractor is often in a difficult position , when payments to the nominated sub-contractor are only due to be made immediately prior to the next valuation , and insufficient time remains for receipts to be obtained . |
| 22 | If the garden is small it will be a case of growing the monkey puzzle in the swimming pool , so many demands will be made on it , but most herbs are sufficiently ornamental to be fitted into the aesthetic need that a garden fulfils . |
| 23 | For the courts to have regard to Parliamentary material might necessitate changes in Parliamentary procedures to ensure that ministerial statements are sufficiently detailed to be taken into account . |
| 24 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 25 | Dr Pertwee says there is no longer a stigma attached to cannabis research in the scientific world , although pharmaceutical companies have been less willing to be seen to be working with cannabis-like substances . |
| 26 | Clearly , even in situations where the distribution of future cash flows is known to the auditors , then a going concern qualification 's ‘ accuracy ’ as a predictor of failure will depend on the nature of this distribution and the point at which the auditors decide that the possibility of failure is sufficiently high to be signalled to investors . |
| 27 | ‘ Have you any equipment that is sufficiently light to be taken in a cab ? ’ |
| 28 | certainly the case for for the sort of the landless and the , the very poor peasant and I think this is why the , the medium and the wealthy peasants are less interested to be involved , they have got things to lose . |
| 29 | Once both do , neither may be so willing to be bullied . |
| 30 | The reputations of others who may not have been so willing to be identified are sacrificed in the quest for titillation . |