Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are n't you afraid of being the other sort — the sort that stops and suffers ? " |
| 2 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 3 | But hey , there 's a bounty out , he could do with the loot and you can tell from the narrowing of those famous Eastwood eyes that he 's bored rigid with being a decent human being . |
| 4 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |
| 5 | And when people like Michael Bilington from the Guardian comes here what they are interested in are the Irish shows , not the visiting productions which they can see anytime . |
| 6 | Erm but you get some circuits where the only thing you 're interested in is the tiny deviations from Ohm 's Law . |
| 7 | What we are interested in is the different sorts of inferences which we make as addressees , depending on variables like the age and sex of the speaker , as a result of hearing what B says . |
| 8 | ‘ Before , all I was interested in was the glamorous side of the sun , and being able to wear short skirts and skimpy tops . |
| 9 | It revealed Docherty to be a witty , compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past . |
| 10 | Denholm was totally unfitted to be a naval officer of any kind and his highly defective eyesight should have led to his automatic disbarment from any navy in the world . |
| 11 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 12 | I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty . |
| 13 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 14 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 15 | I 'm quite prepared to be a single mum and I 've had offers from male friends who 'd like children but do n't want a wife , and I 'm tempted . |
| 16 | Be prepared to be the first one to stand up for what is right when something wrong is being done to or said about someone . |
| 17 | Foreign Secretary and MP for Witney , Douglas Herd , wants English to be the second language in Eastern Europe rather than Russian . |
| 18 | It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager , arriving in a new town , terribly self-conscious at being a new student . |
| 19 | ‘ I think , after all , what you probably are is a perfectly respectable wife and mother , and that all you 're guilty of is a momentary lapse . ’ |
| 20 | NOT CONTENT with being the single most sought-after band on the Sub Pop roster ( with no fewer than four major labels seriously chasing their signatures ) , NIRVANA are playing merry hell with the distributors of their new single ‘ Silver/Dive ’ . |
| 21 | NOT CONTENT with being the single most sought-after band on the Sub Pop roster ( with no fewer than four major labels seriously chasing their signatures ) , NIRVANA are playing merry hell with the distributors of their new single ‘ Silver/Dive ’ . |
| 22 | There are large numbers of executions , lots of people are er taken off to prison , many people in fear and despair and demoralization drop out of the Communist Party , it 's particularly dangerous to be a Communist Party member in the major cities where the repression is most intense and where the security forces er are most numerous . |
| 23 | For Regan , then , the partnership model is too imprecise to be a useful analytical tool ; hence the need for an alternative insight . |
| 24 | I am sorry if Stella has found it uncomfortable to be a female president . |
| 25 | The most obvious comment to make on the new-style courses , though , is that they look set to be a great success , if candidate uptake is an indicator . |
| 26 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 27 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 28 | The Plugpal , another vacuum gadget which sucks out the accumulated mess from sink outlets without pulling any plumbing apart , also looks set to be a big success . |
| 29 | September looked set to be a dead month for mortgages , prompting fears of a further collapse in the market . |
| 30 | Looking to the future , she warned that 1993 looked set to be a tougher year than last , ‘ Education funding in the UK looks less secure than in 1992 , and there are no major World Bank projects likely to come through in 1993 . |