Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 2 | I find Morrissey 's latest ‘ racially inspired ’ songs to be uncontroversial compared to ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ . |
| 3 | I consider my ears to be small — and I think you 're very rude . ’ |
| 4 | In Western Australia 's Kunanurra , where DDT is commonly used , studies showed 97 per cent of frogs to be deformed . |
| 5 | It is not my intention to argue that villagers confused the two institutions , or that they thought magistrates and demons to be similar types of beings . |
| 6 | ‘ I ask our fans to be patient until the team shakes down . |
| 7 | The need for trainers to be able to bring out skills in others is paramount . |
| 8 | Our lady readers will be interested ; and , if you touch their hearts , it might dispose their husbands to be charitable . |
| 9 | In the wild , 80 per cent of juvenile ferrets die before reaching maturity , and so the scientists expected losses to be high . |
| 10 | Jane Collier produced her second work , The Cry : a New Dramatic Fable , in 1754 , jointly with Sarah Fielding , who was apparently thought by Richardson and other readers to be sole or chief author . |
| 11 | Could I ask readers to be aware of the need for on-going social education amongst our young people by encouraging discussion not simply about ‘ schooling ’ ( though this is important too ) . |
| 12 | Voters will need to know enough about the candidates to be able to judge their relative merits . |
| 13 | The sweeping curve to the east on Hurst Castle Spit is due to the fact that offshore banks to the west of the spit cause approaching waves to be retarded and to approach the feature as shown in Fig. 8.25 . |
| 14 | According to Marie Raden , police investigator in the Vanersborg district , it requires an astonishing knowledge of animals to be able to approach the horses , and hurt them so badly , without causing them to offer resistance . |
| 15 | This idea may even have developed from the hunting practices and rituals , in which men dressed as animals to be able to approach near enough to use their short-weapons effectively . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 17 | It is an offence under railway bye-laws to be disorderly , offensive or indecent in a station . |
| 18 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 19 | The more involved that teachers feel , the greater is the tendency for them to understand what is required for the review , to consider the LEA guidelines to be adequate and to recall the review . |
| 20 | Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory . |
| 21 | However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) . |
| 22 | This is at the judge 's discretion ( Ord 21 , r 6(1) with opportunity for the parties to be present . |
| 23 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 24 | that 's one of the main attractions to be honest . |
| 25 | He is required to make such provision ( either by insurance or some other means ) as the Minister may , with the consent of the Treasury , approve for sufficient funds to be available , generally up to a total of £20m. to cover compensation during this period . |
| 26 | Certain public transactions , notably where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , require funds to be available in a specific currency at a specific time and place . |
| 27 | I have no funds to be able to pay for such material , so people would have to realise that no payment could be made — their only reward would be possibly seeing their work in print . |
| 28 | We urgently need funds to be able to respond effectively and to meet the increased demands being made on us as well as to maintain our existing work . |
| 29 | Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time . |
| 30 | No they 're not very good cars to be honest . |