Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became exceedingly religious and consequently anxious to know whether there was any good ground for supposing religion to be true . |
| 2 | Day works should be bed as they provide no incentive for a contractor to be efficient because he or she is not responsible for the efficient use of resources , the profit is guaranteed and there may be a risk of double payment . |
| 3 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 4 | The horse will misjudge situations , whether they be real or imagined dangers , and be too easily distracted and lacking in concentration to be reliable in competitive or pleasure riding . |
| 5 | But remember you have to wait at least 12 weeks after the possible infection for the test result to be accurate . |
| 6 | The timescale is then extended by using large felled timbers with patterns sufficiently overlapping the existing chronology to be certain of a unique match . |
| 7 | John Parry , managing director of developer Hammerson , was reported as saying : ‘ If a landlord or tenant wants a deal to be confidential , then they should be allowed to . |
| 8 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 9 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
| 10 | I hope that these very brief summaries of our business do not leave you feeling depressed after the fourth year of recession in our industry because we all have a good deal to be optimistic about . |
| 11 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 12 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 13 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 14 | The name of an angel , an archangel to be sure , and therefore linked to Vauban 's motley crew , but also the name of a great Italian painter . |
| 15 | Would you expect the assailant to be bloodstained ? " |
| 16 | The Inland Revenue originally wanted the machinery ring to be responsible for tax deductions for such workers . |
| 17 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |
| 18 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 19 | In the United States the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , decided that it had the power to declare both the acts of Congress and of the President to be unconstitutional . |
| 20 | The Treasury 's recent draft treaty revealed new thinking on some of EMU 's details , with , for instance , an option for the new central-banking institution to be independent of governments ( a suggestion that Britain had opposed ) . |
| 21 | The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote . |
| 22 | It is important to note that in order for the defendant to be liable at all , he must owe the plaintiff a duty of care . |
| 23 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 24 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |
| 25 | A little struggling lilac tree in the back yard died , because , Belinda said , too many men had pissed on it , out the window , not bothering to wait for the lavatory to be free . |
| 26 | He 's running the club to be successful and if I 'm not , he 'll get somebody else . |
| 27 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 28 | LENNOX LEWIS , the WBC heavyweight champion , has accepted an invitation from the St Andrew 's Sporting Club to be special guest of honour at their monthly boxing promotion on Monday which features the Scottish lightweight title-holder , Kris McAdam , against Wayne Windle , of England . |
| 29 | ‘ I want the club to be ambitious and reach the Beazer Homes League . ’ |
| 30 | What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings . |