Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse will misjudge situations , whether they be real or imagined dangers , and be too easily distracted and lacking in concentration to be reliable in competitive or pleasure riding . |
| 2 | The timescale is then extended by using large felled timbers with patterns sufficiently overlapping the existing chronology to be certain of a unique match . |
| 3 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 4 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
| 5 | I hope that these very brief summaries of our business do not leave you feeling depressed after the fourth year of recession in our industry because we all have a good deal to be optimistic about . |
| 6 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 7 | The Inland Revenue originally wanted the machinery ring to be responsible for tax deductions for such workers . |
| 8 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |
| 9 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 10 | The Treasury 's recent draft treaty revealed new thinking on some of EMU 's details , with , for instance , an option for the new central-banking institution to be independent of governments ( a suggestion that Britain had opposed ) . |
| 11 | It is important to note that in order for the defendant to be liable at all , he must owe the plaintiff a duty of care . |
| 12 | There is a second condition required for a rational agent to be indifferent between equal forward and expected future spot rates . |
| 13 | Above everything it needs an example from the top and a readiness to be critical of polite praise and to insist continuously on the bad news . |
| 14 | Joseph expects the department to be involved in advocates ' training , ‘ to ensure they understand procedures and what child protection means . |
| 15 | Nevertheless they still represented items of heavy capital expenditure , and still required a data processing department to be responsible for them . |
| 16 | But this is not an attempt to be controversial for the sake of it . |
| 17 | The other girls disliked her for her outstanding looks and her haughty ways and made no attempt to be friendly on anything but the most superficial level and the pattern cutters and sewing hands hurried home to their families and boyfriends the moment they finished their long day 's work . |
| 18 | Teachers seem to appreciate an attempt to be positive about the Education Reform Act . |
| 19 | The attempt to be fair to all traditions , by being equally tolerant of all and non-judgemental , can lead like a slippery slope from well-intentioned neutrality to profound scepticism about religion . |
| 20 | I offer one or two possible explanations in an attempt to be generous to the Government . |
| 21 | Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level . |
| 22 | There was no intention to be secretive about the Iraqi contract and there is no cover up . |
| 23 | In special cases this rule to be subject to the discretion of the Committee of Management . ’ |
| 24 | Any other such applicant as deemed by St Andrew 's College to be suitable for admission to the course . |
| 25 | So the Americans , as well as not knowing fear , have to have an enemy to be afraid of . |
| 26 | With that letter , I sent you two copies of the Agreement for signature on behalf of Bell Communications Research , on whose behalf I understand you placed the order , and requested details of the specification you wished the tape to be prepared to . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like the public to have a crusade against crime and change their attitude from being forgiving of crime to being considerate of the victim , ’ he said . |
| 28 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 29 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 30 | We shall therefore take the flux density in the gap to be equal to B0 . |