Example sentences of "to be happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 2 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |
| 3 | Here it was impossible not to be happy . |
| 4 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 5 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 6 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 7 | ‘ I want my children , Harriet and Tom , to be happy and rounded and good , and the same for me and my husband Hugh , and my house and my supper table . |
| 8 | Knox modestly demurred , but the meeting was said to be happy and humorous . |
| 9 | ACHINESE proverb has it that if you want to be happy for a week , get married ; for a month , kill a pig ; for a lifetime , plant a garden . |
| 10 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 11 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 12 | ‘ To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition . ' ’ |
| 13 | Despite her determination to be happy , she still suffered from chaotic dreams , and quickly plunged into everyday activity to save herself from the terrors of her own mind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Wanted to be happy — Here ! ’ |
| 16 | He wants his trees to be happy in their new environment for obvious commercial reasons . |
| 17 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 18 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 19 | The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy . |
| 20 | I know you 're both going to be happy together . |
| 21 | There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy . |
| 22 | It just remains for you to be happy too . |
| 23 | He had every reason to be happy . |
| 24 | I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live . ’ |
| 25 | Though his skin was pale , he had the lips and round face of a black African , and that African quality of showing that one does not need a reason to be happy . |
| 26 | I like it when she says ‘ Surprise , Surprise ’ , it 's so funny , and I like it when they all start crying , 'cos they 're happy and they all start crying 'cos they 're thick and my mum starts to cry and you say ‘ Why are you crying , it 's meant to be happy ? ’ and she goes ‘ Weaarrh ’ . |
| 27 | Parents have a wholly understandable desire for their children to be happy , so ( not surprisingly ) signs of discontent , sadness and storm and stress , are not easy for them to bear . |
| 28 | First , as you discovered in exercise 10.1 , while the wealthier members of any society claim to be more happy than poorer members of that society , the cross-cultural association between the average amount of wealth in a country and the proportion who claim to be happy is extremely weak . |
| 29 | The animals seem to be happy and contented in their lives , it is only man who is melancholy . |
| 30 | We have a right to be happy . ’ |