Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not wrong or odd to be different , in fact it 's far wiser to think things out for yourself than just to blindly and unthinkingly follow the crowd . |
| 2 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 3 | Have you ever secretly flirted with the idea that it might be rather glamorous or exciting to be widowed young , to go blind , to have cancer or AIDS , to go bankrupt , to be burgled , to be a social outcast , to go crazy , to become homeless , to be a drug addict , even to commit suicide … ? |
| 4 | With many aspects of flying , we need to have reached a certain stage or standard to be able to appreciate the problems , or to understand and take in the facts . |
| 5 | ‘ The court may , on the application of the office-holder , summon to appear before it — ( a ) any officer of the company , ( b ) any person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company , or ( c ) any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company . |
| 6 | If such criticisms are valid , is a sterner , more restrictive approach either desirable or likely to be effective ? |
| 7 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 8 | So , are we saying that it is somehow abnormal or freakish to be able to stick to a healthy regime and remain slim ? |
| 9 | In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important . |
| 10 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 11 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 12 | In 1986 the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed a commission of Serbian intellectuals to consider some of these problems , and by the autumn of that year a working group of that commission had prepared a draft ‘ Memorandum ’ which , although supposed to be confidential , was published in the Serbian press . |
| 13 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 14 | What is true is that the absence of , say , its mother 's milk may affect the baby 's medical condition and , to this extent , it misses the milk ( although unable to be aware of the fact ) but not its mother . |
| 15 | The Legion knew that many of its recruits had learned their killing and soldiering elsewhere , in Beirut , Rhodesia , Vietnam or the Falklands , and was more than pleased to be able to recruit such proficient fighting men . |
| 16 | He was making a tremendous effort to appear calm , if possible to be calm . |
| 17 | They are n't VL Bus compliant , so they 're proprietary and prone to be early orphans . |
| 18 | Anyway , it felt weak and wrong to be free and still take the Men 's food . |
| 19 | To many foreigners , not to mention the British themselves , England is simply too cold and damp to be serious wine producer . |
| 20 | The remote observer measures time intervals to be dilated and light to be red shifted . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I am proud to be the Minister who changed the rules and delighted to be able to benefit schools in my own constituency . |
| 22 | too queer and incoherent to be true . |
| 23 | Quite frequently therefore a soldier might be appointed to head a mission in Berlin or St Petersburg in the justified belief that military men were especially welcome there and likely to be effective representatives . |
| 24 | He goes on to suggest that ‘ such relations are pathological cases and likely to be rare in practice ’ . |
| 25 | response rate is good because the respondent is captive and likely to be interested |
| 26 | This may be a reasonable attitude in certain circumstances , e.g. in the denudation of spoil tips or the dissection of incoherent sandstones in the semi-arid western parts of the United States , but it is demonstrably wrong in many areas and likely to be wrong in many others . |
| 27 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 28 | ‘ I am both proud and privileged to be able to fly Concorde . |
| 29 | After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie . |
| 30 | Because I know when I feel happy I feel quite well ’ , while a 74-year-old farmer 's widow stated ‘ I 've reached the stage now where I say is n't it lovely and good to be alive , seeing all the lovely leaves on the trees , it 's wonderful to be alive and to able to stand and stare ! ’ . |