Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence . |
| 2 | Sometimes you 've got to be a little cruel to be kind ! |
| 3 | And , at the end of his busy career , he adds : ‘ It is rather interesting to be able to read The Times and The Northern Echo in the morning instead of at night . ’ |
| 4 | Surely he 'd be so grateful to be free of her that he 'd agree ? |
| 5 | It would be highly undesirable to be confident about a hard disk that has a question mark hanging over it . |
| 6 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 7 | They looked so eager , so willing to be pleased . |
| 8 | Each section would have its own tonality , usually related to the original key but sufficiently different to be noticeable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were obviously delighted to be able to use Phoebe to prove their conviction that child stars burn out if they are not raised to be as dull as anyone else 's children . |
| 11 | But it was not so easy to be dismissive of the Incas . |
| 12 | I do n't know , I felt that was , I mean , erm it 's so easy to be snobbish , but if the problems of experimentation that comes out of accident because you want to achieve an accident and you want to achieve the fall of things on the page , and the accident that occurs because , as you say , nobody 's ever told you that you 're not supposed to do that , so the accident is n't a case of reacting against a rule to test it , to see whether it would stand up to being broken , the one that 's just happened I think , I |
| 13 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 14 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 15 | Such phrases were a fashion of the time and sufficiently vague to be meaningless as a guide on any serious policy matter . |
| 16 | The notion was sufficiently vague to be easy to understand and difficult to disprove . |
| 17 | It is the plaintiff 's case that [ the agreement ] created no term sufficiently identifiable to be capable of recognition by the law , and that accordingly no tenancy was created . |
| 18 | A completely watertight one was obviously impossible ; and it would also be sufficiently unusual to be suspicious . |
| 19 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 20 | The elephant and tapir of Sumatra and Borneo , the rhinoceros of Sumatra and the allied species of Java , the wild cattle of Borneo of the kind long supposed to be peculiar to Java , are now all known to inhabit some part or other of Southern Asia . |
| 21 | After poor Auntie Lou had tried so hard to be nice ! |
| 22 | It 's so hard to be sure . |
| 23 | It startled her that he should know this much when she had tried so hard to be circumspect in making her enquiries . |
| 24 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not really so hard to be pleasant , is it ? ’ |
| 26 | They meant well of course , but they were trying so hard to be sympathetic and reassuring , saying they would be praying for her . |
| 27 | Legally and socially , no country on earth tries so hard to be free of racism . |
| 28 | I 'm so glad to be alive . |
| 29 | I should be so lucky to be able to . |
| 30 | This is because no two patients are likely to have identical injuries , and large groups of patients are even less likely to be homogenous . |