Example sentences of "[is] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 2 | It is humiliating to be left and gratifying when the leaver shows signs of repentance and regret . |
| 3 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 4 | This may lead some health workers , families and older people themselves to believe that there is little to be done to improve the circumstances of people with care needs . |
| 5 | There is little to be gained from refusing to do so , but if you object to the warning for some reason , you should make that clear and pursue your rights under the appeals procedure . |
| 6 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 7 | There is little to be gained in trying out something which one already knows to be inadequate . |
| 8 | There is little to be achieved by scolding a dog when this happens as this simply adds to the emotional charge linked to your reappearance . |
| 9 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |
| 10 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 11 | With such limited information there is little to be gained by interleaving the two processors since neither can provide much assistance to the other processor . |
| 12 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 13 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 14 | There is little to be gained from this however . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't seem to believe that it 's possible to be a rogue and a good man at the same time . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a continuing theme ; dance is fickle and chews up styles so quickly it 's possible to be last week 's thing when your work is still relevant : ‘ Electro was given a bad name by break-dancing , ’ reckons David . |
| 17 | But the good news is , with the aid of these space age products , it 's possible to be prettier than ever before . |
| 18 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 19 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 20 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 21 | ‘ Lucky for him , his alibi is as watertight as it 's possible to be , unless the college Principal , half his staff and all his students are Iying . |
| 22 | It 's not difficult with small creatures , but with the large ones it 's possible to be a hundred pounds or so out , and an overdose could be dangerous for the animal . |
| 23 | The best you can do is be as careful as it 's possible to be . ’ |
| 24 | While I certainly do n't mind playing those roles it 's fabulous to be offered something meaty . ’ |
| 25 | A lot of men are distraught at not being able to give birth and there 's little to be done about that . |
| 26 | It is understandable to be worried and scared if you think you might have been exposed to HIV . |
| 27 | By 1993 , a HK$4bn airport that is to be built on reclaimed land off the island of Taipa is due to be opened . |
| 28 | A final version is due to be endorsed by China 's parliament , the National People 's Congress , in March . |
| 29 | Space shuttle Atlantis is due to be launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , on Thursday . |
| 30 | The economy is crumbling , and the country 's foreign debt is due to be rescheduled by next June . |