Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee . |
| 2 | Some might nonetheless think it justifiable to be fearful of the merely speculative dangers of a long-term reduction in the body 's oestrogen levels . |
| 3 | It was absolutely nauseating to be involved with . |
| 4 | It is easy and almost certainly wrong to be cynical about in-service training . |
| 5 | So what is now the status of his later insistence that , ‘ Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil ’ ( 512 ) ? |
| 6 | The popes were prepared to be tolerant in this matter , in the hope that Edward would eventually get launched again on crusade , a hope stimulated by his taking the cross in 1287 when he vowed to depart in June 1293 and by the fall of Acre in 1291 . |
| 7 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 8 | Julia 's soft heart had been touched by Minnie 's grief , and she was prepared to be friendly with her , but Carrie was adamant . |
| 9 | People , however , can only mobilise their adult mature capacities if their peers are prepared to be curious about their social world and its implicit and explicit political structures as these exist in reality and in their minds . |
| 10 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 11 | Not being prepared to be beholden to those who were lobbying you , McLeish observed , considering the formidable professional across the table . |
| 12 | It 's best if you keep to the same time each week for regular activities , though be prepared to be flexible about it . |
| 13 | We wish to continue as a Direct Grant school in friendly co-operation with the local authorities , and we are prepared to be flexible in any new arrangements that we may be able to make together , but we feel that we must preserve the quality , traditions , and record of this School and keep faith with the benefactions of the past and present . |
| 14 | ‘ If we 're going to break through , we 've got to be prepared to be quick on the button and to say quite risky things . ’ |
| 15 | Many governing bodies appear to have at least one member who has some skill in financial planning and most governors are prepared to be sympathetic towards financial proposals from heads who show that they are competent . |
| 16 | It 's difficult to find companies willing to be specific about the changes or benefits that have resulted from the services of a consulting guru . |
| 17 | There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) . |
| 18 | Whether anyone 's willing to be receptive to a music that is not as seriously , purgatively ‘ innovative ’ as the post-punk noise that veers towards the Rough Trade arena , not quite as vulnerably half-original as the music of this year 's Gig Of The Century bill ( Ratio , Teardrop , Echo ) . |
| 19 | After working for a building company for two months , she was offered a permanent secretarial position there and decided to accept it because the firm was willing to be flexible about unpaid time off . |
| 20 | If you are to live in rented accommodation or a hotel while finding somewhere more permanent to live in your new domicile , your employer may be willing to be responsible for those costs . |
| 21 | After all , most women do not look like cover girls , and the Jewish woman is free to be beautiful in an inner way , not as a clone of an advertisement . |
| 22 | And after that fight , I would either be dead and at peace , or alive and free … free to be happy with Elizabeth . |
| 23 | He was not disposed to be easy with her . |
| 24 | Both Paul and Keith have been careful to be polite to each other all week . |
| 25 | got to be careful to be right on in that respect , I think |
| 26 | NASA says yes , highly probable for a prototype to be flying tests , but doubtful to be operational for two years . |
| 27 | Too old to be involved in this escalating round of violence . |
| 28 | They are too old to be worried about the physical changes that have taken place in them , but I also see that they share a certain self-regard , a comfort which — I hazard a speculation — is robbed from old people in our cities . |
| 29 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 30 | He 's afraid to be alone with her . |