Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 2 | The extra costs of £9.60 a year per household are thought likely to be passed on through local taxation . |
| 3 | However , a courtesy room will sometimes be made available to be shared between a group of guests . |
| 4 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 5 | Protests have to be made public to be effective . |
| 6 | Some pattern of what might be done needed to be worked out , and after a great deal of discussion and searching for funds , we transferred one of the men 's teacher training classes from Kemmendine to a Delta village . |
| 7 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 8 | Feelings that may have poisoned one 's perceptions and coloured one 's actions since childhood may be found inappropriate to be carried around continually in adult life . |
| 9 | At all events , she should not be left alone to be just herself . |
| 10 | Later the collision fenders were painted white to be seen in the blackout and sticky netting fixed to the window glass to prevent splintering ; there was a small diamond shaped hole in the centre , through which passengers were expected to discover where they were . |
| 11 | Children were considered ineligible to be controls if they were a twin , were adopted , or had a serious congenital defect . |
| 12 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 13 | To conclude the report a programme for possible implementation was set out , which involved a development loan being made available to be repaid as the two institutions were rolled into one . |
| 14 | A temporary deviation might occur because export and import volumes could react slowly to exchange rate movements , but these lags were thought unlikely to be excessively long , especially if capital account transactions anticipated the process . |
| 15 | As shown in Table VIII , the 13 cases that were judged histological to be definite ulcerative colitis ( category A ) were distributed almost evenly between the RP and control groups . |
| 16 | The whole raison d'être of these devices and software is to enable copy-protection to be overcome . |
| 17 | ‘ When they come to the Grave , while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth . ’ ; |
| 18 | The high rate of diversification and evolutionary turnover in mammals is thought likely to be the result of a variety of factors , such as strong competitive interactions leading to specialisation in feeding methods , limitations on food supply , high mobility and energy use , interspecific aggression and territoriality . |
| 19 | But Merseyside comedienne Pauline Daniels is getting ready to be a kid again . |
| 20 | And early September generally is set fair to be a good spell for holidays , says his latest bulletin . |
| 21 | Under the Act is seems unlikely to be of paramount significance but dissatisfied parents who might otherwise feel impotent are given a weapon with which to fight back . |
| 22 | Mr Major must hope that his new chancellor does well enough to rescue the economy but gets so battered in the process that he is judged unfit to be prime minister . |
| 23 | But , whatever the result , he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 25 | Thus , no Roman skipper would move off from a port on 24 August , 5 October , or 8 November , and it was thought bad to be at sea at the end of the month . |
| 26 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 27 | Although an agreement was thought likely to be ready in March , major concessions were still required from all sides and many disagreements remained , particularly over rules of origin . |
| 28 | Chest x ray showed evidence of previous tuberculosis and some pleural thickening at the left base , which was thought likely to be long standing ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 29 | After the local police were alerted , a man was apprehended suspected to be disturbing the terns and collecting their eggs . |
| 30 | New Zealand was declared unfit to be an American ally and share in defence intelligence . |