Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing Britain was prepared to entertain was insecurity of relay stations on the Chinese mainland . |
| 2 | ‘ Already more than two dozen companies with schemes similar to TOP are members of Quality Scotland , and there are between 50 and 60 in the pipeline . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm just delighted to have been part of it all . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible . |
| 5 | The only problem you 're likely to encounter is jerkiness of movement as the nodes grow too far apart . |
| 6 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 7 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |
| 8 | An aspect we were not able to cover was details of behaviour ( of suspect and the police ) leading up to the arrest . |
| 9 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 10 | Those who have actual memories of the year are unlikely to have been party to the Party that was supposed to be the mythical Swinging Sixties — one of the authors was still unafflicted by puberty while the other was into his third year in a sheet-metal factory , so we certainly were n't invited . |
| 11 | Mr Clinton has shown no inkling that this bothers him , no sense that the social programmes he will now not be able to enact are ones over which he will shed many tears . |
| 12 | One of the first to emerge was DFDP from Atlanta Signal processing ( Fig. 1 ) , at one time marketed by Texas Instruments . |
| 13 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 14 | But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way . |
| 15 | Even those of us too young to have been part of it are still under the spell of the culture of activism formed around it . |
| 16 | National policy decisions about farming , rural housing , pollution control and about the guidelines which planners are obliged to follow are matters on which the national voice of CPRW must be heard . |
| 17 | The liberals were equally determined to use their parliamentary power to prevent reaction : in masonic circles there seems even to have been talk of a republican dictatorship . |
| 18 | We know that there were three other nominations but not whom two of them were , assuming the third to have been John of St Paul . |