Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We continue to be pleased to hear by word of mouth that Medau News is ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ well-presented ’ and ‘ a good idea ’ … this is , of course , very gratifying but still we can not inveigle you into putting pen to paper and writing to us . |
| 2 | I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God . |
| 3 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 4 | It has been found in practice to be easy to explain to the lay client and easy for such a client to comprehend . |
| 5 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 6 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 7 | Whereas these may appear to be easy to recognize in theory , in practice it can be difficult to determine whether a sediment is grain supported or matrix supported in a hand specimen , but particularly when seen in two dimensions within a thin section ( e.g. Fig. 5.2d ) . |
| 8 | Solutions to the Ferranti crisis are not going to be easy to find despite the way in which the company has been inundated with offers of help . |
| 9 | • The Liberal Democrats , said to be anxious to climb on the green bandwagon , are proposing an Animal Protection commission with varying responsibilities from farmyard animals to goldfish in petshops . |
| 10 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 11 | He had become increasingly unhappy about the trackway theory , feeling it to be insufficient to account for the number of leys which seemed to exist , the tendency for parallel systems , the intersection of many leys at a single site , and the phenomenon which he discovered of patterns of concentric circles . |
| 12 | In most cases , however , this appears to be insufficient to account for the amount of subsidence observed . |
| 13 | This combination can not be expected to be homogeneous to start with . |
| 14 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 15 | She imagined that after playing tennis and having tea , they would go on somewhere and she would like to be available to go with them . |
| 16 | As well as the above , John Wylie would like you to be available to share with him two sections on Saturday , 11.20–12.45 : ‘ Ending sufferings ’ page 3 , and 7.00–9.00 : ‘ Welcoming diversity ’ page 6 . |
| 17 | If trainees argue that the caring professions need always to be available to help with every problem , it would be an idea to ask them to make a list of five reasons and then submit these to open discussion . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is necessary for the specialist teacher to be available to help in providing solutions for specific problems that arise in the classroom or more generally in the school because of specific difficulties that the visually handicapped child encounters , for instance , in dealing with visual materials or in taking part in group activities . |
| 19 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 20 | However , it seems to me to be incorrect to conclude as a result that article 7 of the E.E.C . |
| 21 | Where trade-offs are inevitable , the cost accountant needs to be present to advise on whether the given attributes can be supplied at the target price . |
| 22 | Expressing such views requires courage because it would appear to be taboo to talk about protecting fee income . |
| 23 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 24 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
| 25 | It has to be possible to see within reality the presence of that which transcends it — what the Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘ the beyond in our midst ’ . |
| 26 | It still appears to be possible to test for market efficiency , for equation ( 3.31 ) predicts that the coefficient of f t will be 1 . |
| 27 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 28 | It ought to be possible to get to a position where we can say with regard to a specific query : ‘ These are the most inherently valuable sources available worldwide ‘ about ’ that subject . ’ |
| 29 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 30 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |