Example sentences of "to be [adj] [prep] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 2 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 3 | What we need to be certain about is that whatever society is involved in or whatever organisation is involved in balloting that it should be seen to be done properly . |
| 4 | You 've got to mention in Scotland the one thing that we 've got to be proud of is the children 's panel system because |
| 5 | But what we are probably going to be short of is money to improve training and to oversee examinations — people are reluctant to put money into the administrative side . |
| 6 | But that 's silly cos there 's nothing to be frightened of is there ? |
| 7 | Important as the foregoing publications are , the crucial thing for local historians to be aware of is the richness of the records maintained by the Commission , which have not been , and perhaps never will be , published . |
| 8 | One trap to be aware of is that of relying simply on checklists of good practice ( like , ‘ Keeping the school under review ’ — ILEA ( 1977 ) ) : teachers ask themselves whether or not their schools are carrying out each item , the implication being that if they are not , they should be . |
| 9 | An important point to be aware of is that insurance and other financial companies may give illustrative projections of their investment performance . |
| 10 | You see gents what we 've got to be aware of is , if Glasgow and Birmingham for example |
| 11 | A second dimension that we need to be aware of is one of organisational change and the reasons for it . |
| 12 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 13 | In other words , the type of critical and political self-analysis which New Historicists claim to be aware of is insufficiently foregrounded when reading a Renaissance text . |
| 14 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 15 | One of the things that we need to be clear about is that erm computers are not unlike us . |
| 16 | The only part of the natural world that the US delegation to the Earth Summit seems to be interested in is beavers , and how best to build dams and systematically reinforce the logjams that others are striving to break down . |
| 17 | For the other side of the ‘ protection ’ coin to be wary of is over -protection . |
| 18 | I 've got to be careful off is use nine because sixty nine tend to go together do n't they ? |
| 19 | I think there 's a danger that you can go over the top with praise , in that you 're anxious to give quality feedback , the thing that you have to be careful with is that it 's not just meaningless like that , because that can be just as bad as giving negative feedback . |
| 20 | The only thing you have to be careful of is that the hardcard is thin enough not to obscure too many of the very few slots that the 2000 series has . |
| 21 | Yeah , I mean , what you , what you 'd have to be careful of is , is sooner or later people 'll catch on |