Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 2 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 3 | They do not want a levy : they want everyone to be exempt . |
| 4 | Taylor wants everyone to be sunny side up after the World Cup qualifier to make up for the fact that no English club sides are left in Europe and give everyone — players and fans — a lift . |
| 5 | In the European scheme of things , England has nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 6 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 7 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 8 | They say they just want someone to be accountable for the death of their daughter . |
| 9 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 10 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 11 | Thus , when the Law deems something to be O.K. , chances are it stops being much fun . |
| 12 | No doubt there will be an extensive scrutiny from those who expect everything to be perfect but it passes pretty well from my point of view . |
| 13 | But , however great the problems in your life , try to find something to be joyful about . |
| 14 | ‘ I want everything to be right , ’ Kelly told her mum , between wracking coughs . |
| 15 | ‘ You want everything to be perfect , Julia . |
| 16 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 17 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 18 | We want everybody to be ready to fall into their places five minutes before zero hour . ’ |
| 19 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 20 | She 'd said something about being careful with her blood sugar ; nothing as serious as diabetes , but something she had to watch . |
| 21 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 22 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 23 | And now she knew that she would have done anything to be able to roll back the clock . |
| 24 | Look Charlotte ca n't do anything without being messy , look , the other , the other erm morning I went to school to pick Ben up , er and I put her in the car seat , she 's lovely and clean , and I give her a biscuit , by the time we got |
| 25 | Castle Drachenfels is not a straightforward or simple adventure — not that you would expect anything to be straightforward in such a dreadful place . |
| 26 | It could reinforce that conventional distinction between astronomy and natural philosophy , which allowed one to be skeptical concerning any claims for physical representation that the mathematical astronomer might make . |
| 27 | You do n't have to have had one to be able to comment on this . |
| 28 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
| 29 | ‘ You have n't got anything to be frightened of — not here … |
| 30 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |