Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better to be good to him — be specially good to him . |
| 2 | They are short enough to be accessible to the pre-intermediate learner , and students will be pleased with their progress in understanding spoken English . |
| 3 | But actually it 's the reverse , since it 's a struggle to get detached and find a perspective that balances my own inside knowledge against the spectrum of differing views of their fans , detractors and those unfortunate enough to be indifferent to them . |
| 4 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 5 | Wedgwood , traditionally more successful , experienced a rather worrying drop in profits , from I£17.9m to I£12.8m but will benefit from recent action to reduce costs by closing three old and inefficient production facilities — one of which is old enough to be subject to a preservation order . |
| 6 | Popular with older men marrying women in their twenties — still young enough to be entitled to a proper send-off . |
| 7 | Certainly not as bright as here , er sufficient light for me to be able to see that there were people in there and to differentiate between a man and a woman but er at that time not enough to be able to clearly define anybody . |
| 8 | The kind of software niches Solbourne would go after would require lots of CPU power , I/O and memory but still be small enough to be unattractive to an HP . |
| 9 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 10 | So to be able to the sweepstake in the past another church and they could be , they could be on the interest you know , the amount towards running costs such as this . |
| 11 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 12 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 13 | The following range of services have been chosen not only to be relevant to members in the course of pursuing their professional objectives , but also to be of interest on a more personal level . |
| 14 | They dismay the big auctioneers , such as Jacques Tajan of Ader-Tajan , and the modern paintings specialist Guy Loudmer , who believe competition from foreign countries not only to be beneficial to native companies of their importance , but also essential for Paris 's development as an art market . |
| 15 | Section 14(1) provides that , subject to a dispensation granted by the Secretary of State for Transport , a fishing vessel is only to be eligible to be registered in the new register if : |
| 16 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 17 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 18 | East Antrim MP Roy Beggs said : ‘ We remain concerned that the cohesion funding soon to be open to the Irish Republic could totally distort the balance between port facilities in the whole island . ’ |
| 19 | They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend . |
| 20 | It is also worth nothing , I think , that although ‘ whole-person ’ , ‘ humanistic ’ approaches seem superficially to be opposed to behaviourism in their recognition of the individual 's personality , on closer inspection the two views on learning seem in one fundamental respect to be essentially alike . |
| 21 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |
| 22 | The effect of this was to make the personnel of the Court of Napoleon III somewhat heterogeneous , for many of the Orléanist nobility were prepared to use the Tuileries , consoling themselves with the thought that the Emperor 's half-brother , the Duke de Morny , was held still to be faithful to Orléanist principles . |
| 23 | Interiors do not of course cease thereafter to be important to the writer — but their nature has changed , partly in the way that Lawrence predicted . |
| 24 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 25 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 26 | His job is also to be friendly to you , to smile at you , you know , when you want it , so it 's not really an equal relationship . |
| 27 | The fourth meaning appears to be a combination of the first and third meanings where non-sexual and sexual attraction are combined , and which seems also to be applicable to human beings only . |
| 28 | They were also to be subject to greater control by central government , since the Minister , as the President of the Board was to become , could intervene if an authority was not providing an education ‘ appropriate to the age , ability and aptitude of the child ’ . |
| 29 | Our evidence points to the need both to be sensitive to the many different recipients of public policy and their potentially different views on its effects , and to the need to understand the meaning , to those on the receiving end , of actions taken in the name of public policy . |
| 30 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |