Example sentences of "[adj] to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impossible you might think , for this to be kept secret — but it was , from all except his doctor , his personal aide , and his wife who , in effect , ran the US government for seven months . |
| 2 | He says he is prepared to be proved wrong — suggesting he would raise his offer if DRG produced a higher valuation . |
| 3 | The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh . |
| 4 | Richard , now happily married with two young children , told Vanity Fair magazine that he feels Jagger is too old to be chasing other women . |
| 5 | Although , at first sight , these look fairly primitive ‘ abilities ’ , the fact that a microcomputer can obey quickly a large number of instructions consisting of a combination of these features enables most of the ‘ talents ’ described on page 22 to be made available . |
| 6 | Alida did not need her , Alida could surely manage , surely was not afraid to be left alone ? |
| 7 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 8 | I think , I think most criminals , I mean , there there must be one or two who er er , too dangerous to be let loose on society , |
| 9 | I was fortunate to be granted full refugee status in under a year , this entitled me to bring my family here . |
| 10 | The reliability of the climate scales permits a mean score difference between any two organizations of 0.25 to be considered significant ( provided that the means are based on a substantial sample of individuals ) . |
| 11 | Lane , delighted to be hitting top form again with his Ryder Cup debut less than three weeks away , shot 64 in the Canon European Masters third round for a 16 under par total of 200 . |
| 12 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 13 | The Dwarfs were content to be left alone . |
| 14 | For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’ |
| 15 | It made Auntie Lou nervous to be asked direct questions . |
| 16 | Susan , in this queer , run-down state , was really not fit to be left alone . |
| 17 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 18 | In this sketch , Ken was supposed to be shot dead . |
| 19 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 20 | Krabbe 's manager Jos Hermens and panel president Wolfgang Schoeppe have refused to comment on the findings of the reports which have only just been completed and were supposed to be kept secret until the final ruling was announced . |
| 21 | Erm because the problem is the school 's s now supposed to be making economic charges er which involves caretaker 's fees plus heating costs and everything . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know I was supposed to be keeping office-boy hours . ’ |
| 23 | The lorry was supposed to be carrying empty containers only . |
| 24 | Although these were supposed to be held monthly , devious excuses were manifold when one side or the other wished to dodge an awkward issue . |
| 25 | About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal . |
| 26 | Practical guidelines are likely to be made available to health managers , but there will be no helpline number . |
| 27 | Reports about performance will be produced regularly so that results can be compared to the targets set , and the facilities of the database are also likely to be made available to managers with the help of a query language . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the military 's data banks , which contain information on ocean temperatures and currents , weather patterns and changes in vegetation in many regions of the world , are likely to be made available to environmental researchers . |
| 29 | I mean i what what we 're looking for is is the overall figure of this revised assessment of land availability for I five uses in the plan period , and your residue figure would be the one which would not likely to be made available before the year two thousand and six . |
| 30 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |