Example sentences of "[pron] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 2 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 3 | I think too , ’ said the Archdeacon with untoward frankness , ‘ Marr feels himself to be entitled to more success in the Church than he 's actually achieved . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to be nice to him . |
| 5 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
| 6 | The first pack concentrated on the individual 's renewal of personal faith , the second looked at the need for the Church itself to be open to , and continually responsive to the message of Christ through growth , development and change from within . |
| 7 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's as true as I 'm sitting here telling you , ’ insisted Dodger Gillespie , never one to be subject to fancies or unsought hallucinations . |
| 9 | Again , most of the children were shouted at by their parents when they escaped , and yet Audrey is the only one to be distressed to the point of tears by this . |
| 10 | I thought her life was now so happy and gay that she would n't be able to find it in herself to be uncivil to anyone , even to her grandmother . |
| 11 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 12 | If we genuinely believe everyone to be entitled to education , then we must reject the aristocratic distinction between an education fit only for workers and one fit for philosopher-kings ; but we Must equally reject the new assumption that only those who are receiving a scientific education are being ‘ properly ’ educated ; the rest , those who are studying arts , being relegated to the position of drones or parasites to be , at best , tolerated , and seen as ‘ enriching ’ themselves . |
| 13 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 14 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 15 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 16 | Please , O Lord , knowing my weaknesses , help me to be faithful to this . ’ |
| 17 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 18 | F. Because transport is needed between the factories in a chain , it is more profitable for them to be close to one another . |
| 19 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 20 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 21 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 22 | for them to be able to that . |
| 23 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 24 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 25 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 26 | The only way for him to be true to his sexuality was to go abroad . |
| 27 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 28 | He found no difficulty in signing the engagement drawn up by Parliament which bound him to be faithful to a commonwealth without king and House of Lords . |
| 29 | I 've never asked him to be faithful to me . |
| 30 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |