Example sentences of "to be grateful " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful . |
| 2 | A psychiatrist who specialises in executive stress thought the fencing indicated that the person it protected felt an enormous sense of isolation and betrayal at the hands of people who had failed to be grateful for years of selfless public service . |
| 3 | For this , Mr Gorbachev will have cause to be grateful , for a 15-month total ban on strikes is dangerous and unworkable nonsense . |
| 4 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 5 | At the begining of the second half England again had cause to be grateful as a marvellous five-man move graced by Tarasiewicz 's stunning volleyed pass ended with Ziober drifting a benign shot over . |
| 6 | I suppose we have to be grateful that Mr Akhtar grudgingly refrains from asking us to ban the works of Voltaire , which seems a major concession from him . |
| 7 | Ramsey never failed to be grateful to the young pilots who won the Battle of Britain , and always afterwards remembered Battle of Britain Sunday . |
| 8 | Occasionally she could see a gleam in Rachel 's eye , as though she might suddenly ask him if his intentions were honourable , but for the first time in her life she learned to be grateful for her mother 's good manners . |
| 9 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |
| 10 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 11 | You ca n't expect him to be grateful for things we did together when we were in love — when we were working happily together . |
| 12 | You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous . |
| 13 | Take the case of the thirteenth Earl Ferrers , a man to whom all drinking folk have reason to be grateful . |
| 14 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 15 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 16 | Or are they expected to be grateful that after the hamfisted handling of Sir David ( now Lord ) Wilson 's resignation , Hong Kong is to be the possible reward for a loser in the game of political musical chairs ? |
| 17 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 18 | Charles Luker then gave a speech of reminiscences stressing the need to be grateful for ‘ those who had formed the Club and those who had kept it going for its first 50 years ’ . |
| 19 | I suppose it 's something to be grateful for that I can do anything useful for you , so stop worrying . |
| 20 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 21 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 22 | But we saw enough to be grateful that so much is being done to protect and conserve this rich heritage and , driving on lead-free petrol , we felt comfortable knowing that we were doing our bit . |
| 23 | Today the wall serves as a safe guide back to civilisation in mist or unkind weather and lost souls on Gragareth have good reason to be grateful for its existence . |
| 24 | Yet again he had reason to be grateful that no-one in Vienna argued with a uniform . |
| 25 | Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard . |
| 26 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 27 | In the formation of the partnership and in the baby 's increasing awareness of difference , the mother imparts more than nourishment and cleanliness ; she lays the foundation of a future ability to trust and hope , to enjoy with another and to be grateful to another for that enjoyment . |
| 28 | They resented stern reminders not to speak German , to be polite and always , always to be grateful . |
| 29 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 30 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |