Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 2 | In short , those who propose a deprivation weighting must decide whether this is to be additional to or a substitute for mortality . |
| 3 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 4 | The answer to this is to be patient and realize that you are changing the habits of a lifetime . |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue will place a value on the future worth of an earnout agreement and , where this is to be satisfied in cash , capital gains tax may again become payable before the earnout payment is received . |
| 6 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 7 | Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ? |
| 8 | To be old is to be wrinkled and crabbit and heading for Parkinson 's or Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 9 | To be old is to be unhealthy . |
| 10 | Estes and Binney ( 1988 , p. 69 ) describe the image of older people in America as ‘ to be old is to be frail , sick , dependent and vulnerable ’ . |
| 11 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
| 12 | I remember thinking that this was to be alive . |
| 13 | It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial . |
| 14 | And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny . |
| 15 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 16 | This was to be Active Training . |
| 17 | To be too direct was to be unfeminine . |
| 18 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |
| 19 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
| 20 | When the winding is to be excited both transistors ( are switched on , so the voltage applied to the phase winding is equal to the sun , of the two supply voltages ( VL + VH ) , the diode D2 being reverse-biased by VH.There is no series resistance to limit the current , which therefore starts to rise towards a value which is many times the rated winding current . |
| 21 | The second is to be prepared to try to meet the objections of those affected by alternative arrangements . |
| 22 | On these are to be inscribed words reminiscent of the Ten Commandments , beginning with a new commandment not to make ‘ molten gods ’ ( 34.1–28 ) . |
| 23 | The only authentic way to be good is to be good ‘ for nothing ’ : that was to become the ringing insistence of her finest treatise , The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) . |
| 24 | Both behaviourism and ‘ humanistic ’ views would have us believe that to be affective is to be effective in setting up conditions for learning . |
| 25 | In addition , further renewal of MFN status in 1992 was to be dependent on China meeting stringent conditions concerned with ( i ) improving human rights ; ( ii ) ending the export of goods produced in prison labour camps ; and ( iii ) controlling the sale of ballistic missiles to the Middle East . |
| 26 | What is important is to be aware of the normal condition of your fish to as to detect any problem immediately , and to check , and if necessary remedy water quality as soon as any trouble is spotted . |
| 27 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 28 | She wanted to be safe , and the only way she knew how to be safe was to be rich . ’ |
| 29 | The first essential is to be light on your feet , because your unweighting keeps the skis floating . |
| 30 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |