Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |
| 2 | On 9 January 1227 Henry III declared himself to be of full age , and immediately began measures to reclaim the Forest rights of his crown . |
| 3 | Absorbing his father 's deep piety , he believed himself to be in direct communication with angels , and with the Lord himself , who had predestined him to be ‘ King of Kings and Solar King of the World ’ , sent to repopulate his nation . |
| 4 | What redress is there to be for independent bankers who are to be immune from dismissal and are to have , as Pöhl so quaintly put it , ‘ adequate financial arrangements during and after their term in office ’ ? |
| 5 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
| 6 | GLIDEWELL L.J. , having reviewed the authorities , concluding with Pao On v. Lau Yiu , continued : It is true that Pao On v. Lau Yiu is a case of a tripartite relationship , that is , a promise by A to perform a pre-existing contractual obligation owed to B , in retum for a promise of payment by C. But Lord Scarman 's words seem to me to be of general application , equally applicable to a promise made by one of the original two parties to a contract . |
| 7 | Much of this , especially the nature poetry , seems to me to be of high literary quality . |
| 8 | The King afterwards explained his sudden decision in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘ When I realized how serious the situation both political and financial had become , I felt that it was necessary for me to be in close touch with my Prime Minister and of course he could n't come here . ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 10 | The genera Ophialcaea and Ophiotreta were treated as subgenera of Ophiacantha by Mortensen ( 1936 ) and Fell ( 1960 ) , but H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) and Koehler ( 1922 , 1931 ) considered them to be of generic rank , a treatment followed here pending future study on the generic boundaries in this subfamily . |
| 11 | In turn , they prefer it precisely because it enables them to be with fellow immigrants and avoid the hostility of white workers on the day-shift . |
| 12 | This approach to law is an attempt to ethicise legal obligation , and posits as its ideal a situation in which all subjects can obey laws out of a sense of the ethical value of law , a sense which does not require them to be in moral agreement with any of the laws of the system in question . |
| 13 | This immobility also makes it essential for him to be on good terms with his neighbours , as they are likely to be there , for better or worse , for most of his life . |
| 14 | It was said that Arkhina was among the most influential women of the Kha-Khan 's court , but she was too like her sister-in-law , his father 's wife , for him to be on good terms with her . |
| 15 | He put McMartin on probation for 18 months and deferred sentence on the 15-year-old for a year , warning him to be of good behaviour . |
| 16 | I reckoned him to be about forty-ish , a family man — a man of the world , so to speak . |
| 17 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 18 | By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed . |
| 19 | ‘ I know when you said ‘ let's pretend to be engaged ’ you did n't mean it to be for real . ’ |
| 20 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 21 | Faith flew the Tri-Pacer from Texas to our airstrip in Chicago , where Tim and our local mechanic , Chuck Blanchard , did an extensive annual inspection and found it to be in good shape . |
| 22 | Did the producer , perhaps feel it to be in poor taste ? |
| 23 | Thus C is diagonal ; we assume it to be in standard canonical form , i.e. it has equal eigenvalues grouped together : this only requires the columns of X to be written in appropriate order . |
| 24 | You would be well advised to consider the local Bar , particularly ( though not only ) if you do not feel yourself to be of outstanding ability . |
| 25 | You ca n't expect us to be like other people . |