Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 2 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 3 | ‘ She told me she would try to make you afraid by pretending to be ill . ’ |
| 4 | It was not unusual for topics such as mating to be discussed at the breakfast table despite Cora-Beth 's presence ! |
| 5 | And what 's so terrible about wanting to be left alone ? |
| 6 | So tired of having to be careful . |
| 7 | Erm so I think this hearing on the sixteenth of July will be quite useful in trying to be able to i identify that this display unit relates to Newark and not to Mansfield . |
| 8 | Of course you have to take into account the basic personality of the patient ; some will tell all without needing to be questioned , others need tact , diplomacy and perseverance to get any symptoms from them . |
| 9 | Professional interpreters and translators are not alone in needing to be able to display bilingual skills : teachers , businesspeople , administrators , welfare service personnel and trade unionists are going to want such skills , but none more so , perhaps , than those who train language teachers . |
| 10 | But analogizing , as we shall be arguing more fully in a later chapter , is an operation too fundamental to thinking to be escaped in philosophy or anywhere else , at any rate outside logic and mathematics . |
| 11 | He wished she could understand that without having to be told . |
| 12 | He had done what was right without having to be pushed . |
| 13 | The lonely dark was preferable to staying to be taunted . |
| 14 | He arranged as quickly as possible for the vault under the House of Lords to be vacated by its tenant and the news that it was available for renting to be passed to the associates of Guy Fawkes . |
| 15 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 16 | These women he decries are simply weary with having to be constantly on guard against abuse , and why should they have to justify their position when the men are at fault ? |
| 17 | Early Whitesnake was good , because I was pushing the limits of a fairly simple kind of music — probably being a bit over-busy through trying to be not just a standard rock bass player . |
| 18 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 19 | When initial policy discussions are held it is rare for housing to be represented . |
| 20 | The best of deciding to be ordained is the knowledge that you dimly see your future and have the courage to embark on an irreversible way and feel that at least you commit yourself to help humanity in its suffering or its moral predicament . |
| 21 | I wanted to drop everything and run , but I was so scared of appearing to be a coward , even to myself , that I dared not . |
| 22 | Overall the impression given by the materials chosen for the cabin is pleasing without managing to be friendly . |