Example sentences of "[adj] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As American banks retrench , they will corner almost all the profitable business at home , leaving Europeans and a handful of Japanese banks to fight over deals that are either unprofitable or too risky to be of interest . |
| 2 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 3 | In the opposite direction is Tilly Manor in West Harptree , which looks altogether too French to be in north Somerset . |
| 4 | To prefer solitude with a book or a record-player is after all to have a case to answer — ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ — though not , as some would say , an unanswerable case . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ is an American song , after all , and it is not on the whole a British sentiment . |
| 6 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 7 | Everyone on the audition panel is prepared to be on your side and supportive . |
| 8 | David might not be his real kith and kin , but he was honest , and he was hard-working … willing to be at his beck and call and to labour long hours , with only a pittance for his troubles . |
| 9 | Exciting to be with … |
| 10 | We often had to work through the night to get the stage ready in time , but it was exciting to be in one of the Queen 's palaces at Christmas . |
| 11 | After all , even the official sales pitches were often too uninformative , or too ill-spelt and ungrammatical to be of much use . |
| 12 | He is different , Florence Ames thought , he has n't anything to say because he is embarrassed to be with me . |
| 13 | You know , that is a good test of your relationship with a person if there is a sense in which you are embarrassed to be with them , and there 's long periods of silence it 's a pretty good test that it 's not a deep relationship you have with them . |
| 14 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 15 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 16 | Too old to be in uniform , really , so he supposed he should be grateful for the desk job in a small dark room at Admiralty House . |
| 17 | 45753 : The Shostakovich Tenth is not to be preferred to Mravinsky 's 1954 Saga recording ( reviewed on page 48 ) , but it is still sufficiently different to be of interest . |
| 18 | In fact on balance she thought it might be very interesting to be on the spot when the cars were tested for real instead of waiting in the laboratory for the print-outs and reports from whichever of the team was out there . |
| 19 | But in some cases , the remains unearthed by excavation are sufficiently important and interesting to be worth displaying . |
| 20 | I wished somebody else was at home because I was afraid to be in the house with him in this mood . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid to be in the dark . ’ |
| 22 | The RAF were expecting them , and a motorised ack-ack unit had been called in with their Scammells and their diesel generators and their giant mobile searchlights to blaze away with 3.7 inch AA guns at what they tentatively registered as about a dozen Heinkels flying very high , too high to be in danger . |
| 23 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 24 | Secretly Leonora was relieved to be on her own . |
| 25 | Julie El-Ajnaf is relieved to be at home in Leckhampton with her daughter Emel . |
| 26 | Not only were their needs felt to threaten the living standards of other groups , but it was argued that these needs should be given less priority : ‘ It is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age , until adequate provision . |
| 27 | On the other hand , every shilling added to pension rates is extremely costly in total … it is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age . ’ |
| 28 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 29 | On some sites , though , the dating may be too imprecise to be of particular value , and may lack direct relationships between the features . |
| 30 | Either he was in the early depressed state , with hands hanging , or else flailing his limbs about , unsafe to be with ; at such times they had to strap him down . |