Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that we do n't require the evidence of God 's existence to be overwhelming does not mean that we require no evidence of God 's existence at all . |
| 2 | The danger of the approach is that it allows the courts to intervene even where Parliament intended the tribunal 's decision to be final . |
| 3 | Woman 's inability to be content with either living in the orbit of the male ‘ I ’ or repressing her desire into ‘ hystery ’ is a result of the fact that male desire is an essentially narcissistic ‘ Pygmalion urge ’ to invent woman in its own image , while permitting the male subject the freedom to enjoy multiple reflections . |
| 4 | This was not an unconscious result of everybody 's inability to be value-free , but an achieved conventional politeness , consciously assumed to avoid giving offence : it also , incidentally , put the burden of being disagreeable on anyone who wished to oppose the unstated assertions . |
| 5 | I believe Blackwomen 's Creativity to be revolutionary in its potential . |
| 6 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 7 | Under the law , there is no truancy if a child has the school 's permission to be absent or if his/her absence from school is occasioned by : sickness of the child ( not of his/her parent ) ; or unavoidable cause affecting the child and generally involving an emergency ; or a day of religious observance ; or ‘ the school … is not within walking distance … and no suitable arrangements have been made by the LEA for ( the child 's ) transport … or for boarding accommodation ’ . |
| 8 | Tom Pratt 's carrier to be pre-adjusted for angles . |
| 9 | The 1967 White Paper at paragraph 23 , states the government 's intention to be that " community law takes precedence over the domestic law of the member states . " |
| 10 | Zen flashed his identification with contemptuous brevity and then allowed a little time for the mechanic 's fear to be fruitful and multiply . |
| 11 | A striking example of this occurred in 1989 when a decision of the Divisional Court interpreting immigration rules was considered by the Treasury Solicitor 's Department to be wrong and too advantageous to the prospective immigrant . |
| 12 | 17 April : Strange news : the Sun is sponsoring one of the challengers for the Labour leadership : ‘ Sun man 's bid to be Labour leader ’ . |
| 13 | Any other such applicant as deemed by St Andrew 's College to be suitable for admission to the course . |
| 14 | While specific instances of such instability lack moment , little indications of the small ‘ incorrect ’ pleasures and uneasy recognitions on which niche-audience television thrives , nevertheless the bouncing of complicity and distance defines forms of identification and subjectivity which , in their turn , define television 's capacity to be critical . |
| 15 | We knew we had Roseanne Barr 's capacity to be fat and sexy and , on a bad day , any one of us could be Grace Jones — Terminator 3 ? |
| 16 | She had always imagined Nigel 's home to be large , but this was immense ! |
| 17 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 18 | But , proceeding further , I find Ruether 's work to be less than satisfactory because muddled methodologically . |
| 19 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 20 | The minimum requirement will be to lodge relevant documents in the Regional Planning Department 's foyer to be available for public inspection during normal office hours . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it 's just in Harry 's nature to be chivalrous and friendly , ’ Wendell said . |
| 22 | In the end de Gaulle 's strategy had succeeded , but the fact that it had required Coty 's intervention to be successful showed just how risky it had been . |
| 23 | And you 've also got man 's desire to be sure of achieving success . |
| 24 | This tale of personal resolution is saved from saccharine overkill by Byrne 's fine , tortured performance , the children 's refusal to be cute and an almost lyrical conjunction of the young boys ' hidden feelings of neglect and their father 's coming to terms with his bereavement . |
| 25 | This arguably reflects women 's socialisation to be attentive to and concerned about what others think and feel . |
| 26 | He disobeyed Baudelaire 's instruction to be partial , or obeyed it only in so far as he took a stand against conservative taste . |
| 27 | After an interview with Gedge , it wrote : ‘ The band know that out there lie thousands who would fight to the bitter end for The Wedding Present 's name to be unblemished … |
| 28 | At worst it is the perpetuation of the addictive urges to blame others for the problems of self and to persist in considering one 's self to be special and different . |
| 29 | By time-stamping a call-slip on its submission , and by recording on its second copy the time of its arrival , accompanied by the relevant book , in the Reading Room , it was possible to determine the time taken for a reader 's request to be satisfied . |
| 30 | Mr Warburton , whose responsibility it was to run an efficient , economic , and safe railway , had considered the CIOR 's embargo to be prohibitive and had issued his own perceived clarification of it to regional managers before the meeting at which the new Newton lay-out was approved . |