Example sentences of "[adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And there 's Howard himself , three quarters of an inch high , and a little too freshly complexioned to be true , climbing into his car , running upstairs to his office , ushering Felicity through lighted front doors , shaking hands , kissing cheeks …
2 They are n't VL Bus compliant , so they 're proprietary and prone to be early orphans .
3 A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee .
4 The requirement of leave is designed to weed out frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless cases ; but there is no reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes be frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless or that claims based on public law rights are particularly prone to be frivolous , vexatious or hopeless .
5 In the meantime it is sensible to be cautious .
6 Some might nonetheless think it justifiable to be fearful of the merely speculative dangers of a long-term reduction in the body 's oestrogen levels .
7 It was absolutely nauseating to be involved with .
8 I ca n't believe I 'm doing this , she thought , but it felt wonderfully liberating to be able to discuss her private thoughts with someone who had no involvement in her personal life .
9 Today , with such a vast number of creators , even the definition of artist is often too generalised to be helpful , as it embraces commercial and non-commercial practitioners of fine art , graphics and so on alike .
10 It is easy and almost certainly wrong to be cynical about in-service training .
11 So what is now the status of his later insistence that , ‘ Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil ’ ( 512 ) ?
12 Anyway , it felt weak and wrong to be free and still take the Men 's food .
13 But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious .
14 They explain that if someone thinks it is wrong to be gay because of their religious beliefs , three training sessions will not change them .
15 Alix began to think that perhaps , after all , it was not wrong to be happy .
16 You tell me that it 's wrong to be happy .
17 ‘ I suppose it 's wrong to be glad someone 's dead . ’
18 At the skilled end , people who have more experience , he 's done a lot to help erm companies give shares to their employees and companies that are prepared to be innovative erm there 's quite a lot in this erm for them .
19 The popes were prepared to be tolerant in this matter , in the hope that Edward would eventually get launched again on crusade , a hope stimulated by his taking the cross in 1287 when he vowed to depart in June 1293 and by the fall of Acre in 1291 .
20 In my opinion HMG must now be prepared to be definite or accept the consequences . ’
21 In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable .
22 Facts speak for themselves , but only if executives are prepared to listen , are prepared to be convinced .
23 I am prepared to be convinced that that is not the case and that the Government mean well and intend to try to open up educational opportunity to everyone , no matter their class background .
24 Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently .
25 Julia 's soft heart had been touched by Minnie 's grief , and she was prepared to be friendly with her , but Carrie was adamant .
26 She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly .
27 Lesbian issues came to be taken seriously only when there were a number of lesbian volunteers ( and quite a few men supporting them too ) who were prepared to be loud-mouthed , difficult , overworked and sometimes thoroughly disliked within the organization .
28 People were prepared to be honest not just about their authority but about themselves and whether they were actually capable of effecting change .
29 People , however , can only mobilise their adult mature capacities if their peers are prepared to be curious about their social world and its implicit and explicit political structures as these exist in reality and in their minds .
30 I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything .
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