Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during the generation after Waterloo that the balance of English economic and social life changed from being predominantly agricultural to being predominantly industrial ; and with this change … came the growth of urbanization , the development of the mine and factory as the unit of production , and the transformation of the " average " Englishman into a townsman rather than a countryman . |
| 2 | Jessamy was beginning to find it rather odd to be having this day out with her husband . |
| 3 | You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence . |
| 4 | Sometimes you 've got to be a little cruel to be kind ! |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I was 17 it was the place I most wanted to be |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having campaigned from the moral high ground , the Nigerian Government is acutely embarrassed to be caught throwing stones from a glass house . |
| 10 | I 'm terribly sorry to be such a nuisance . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The management is extremely sorry to be leaving Mildenhall and in particular to be losing some of our team . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 15 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 16 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 17 | You see , we were so used to being out , both the wife and I. We 'd go all over London travelling and to the theatre ; and of course our holidays abroad , we miss , weekends at the coast we miss . |
| 18 | This , everyone had agreed two years back , was because women were so used to being in groups dominated by a minority of articulate men ( all groups — social , work , political ) that it was important they ( we ) should be able to discover and articulate our own understanding of all the minute day-by-day ways in which we were oppressed , and relate these to a developing understanding of the ways women were oppressed in society generally . |
| 19 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 20 | But he 's so used to being . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 23 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems so awful to be standing there , hour after hour , doing the same thing , day after day . ’ |
| 25 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 26 | After the March 1991 releases , over 70 detainees were still held and were apparently due to be brought to trial in April . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |