Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want you to be nice to him . |
| 2 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 3 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 4 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 5 | Please , O Lord , knowing my weaknesses , help me to be faithful to this . ’ |
| 6 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 7 | F. Because transport is needed between the factories in a chain , it is more profitable for them to be close to one another . |
| 8 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 9 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 10 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 11 | for them to be able to that . |
| 12 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 13 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 14 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 15 | The only way for him to be true to his sexuality was to go abroad . |
| 16 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 17 | He found no difficulty in signing the engagement drawn up by Parliament which bound him to be faithful to a commonwealth without king and House of Lords . |
| 18 | I 've never asked him to be faithful to me . |
| 19 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |
| 20 | It made her feel that he wanted her to be grateful to him for marrying her . |
| 21 | And he actually expected her to be pleased to be let into his secret ! |
| 22 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
| 23 | She had urged her to be kind to Katherine and the woman had promised . |
| 24 | There was no longer any need for her to be beholden to Fen Marshall . |
| 25 | The government rejected this , claiming it to be contrary to the notion of partnership between central and local government which the 1944 Act had established . |
| 26 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 27 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 28 | ‘ We want it to be available to everyone , not just the business user , ’ says Watt . |
| 29 | This use involves then a shift in the way knowing is conceived , from the static , resultative sort of knowledge evoked by I knew it to be untrue to an operative view of knowing as " directly experiencing " something . |
| 30 | I have said nothing of metal , believing it to be offensive to any right-minded book lover , at least in his own home . |