Example sentences of "is [adj] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understandable to be worried and scared if you think you might have been exposed to HIV . |
| 2 | It will be writing a native implementation of SoftPC for the PowerPC Mac , which is due to be available when Apple first ships the machines in January or February . |
| 3 | The company says that as well as launching an Am486 using Intel microcode , it still plans to go ahead with its clean version , which is due to be available in June , and production will be increased during the second half . |
| 4 | It will be writing a native port of SoftPC for the Mac PowerPC and is due to be available when Apple first ships the machines in January or February . |
| 5 | For example in a 232 , Puchacz , or the older Bocian and Eagle , it is usual to be able to get a full spin of several turns without using any rudder . |
| 6 | It is usual to be able to take one appeal as of right with a second appeal being possible with leave . |
| 7 | From the tracks alone it is possible to be certain of the bipedal stance of certain dinosaurs , and to measure their stride . |
| 8 | Whereas it is impossible to identify the author of this Gospel , it is possible to be sure of one thing about him . |
| 9 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 10 | And if it is possible to be poor but happy , sexual difficulty may tip the balance towards misery , so that financial dissatisfaction is magnified . |
| 11 | Then it is possible to be selective by shooting the adults only . |
| 12 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 13 | Therefore , despite the extent of his knowledge , the further we recede from the date at which he wrote , and the geographical area on which he is most forthcoming , the less it is possible to be confident that important events were not omitted from his work . |
| 14 | A dull , cold , rainy day does not literally mean ‘ sadness ’ — it is possible to be happy on such a day — but it is so obviously a metaphor for sadness that when it appears in writing it has become a cliché , intended to trigger a predictable response . |
| 15 | With Beuys , we chose an artist who shows how it is possible to be creative , even in the absence of objects and forms , by offering a living experience , an active space . |
| 16 | It is possible to be creative while still having high expectations of pupils . |
| 17 | Girke 's paintings have a similar quality , and this is what I want to show : that it is possible to be reductive and constructive but also emotional ’ . |
| 18 | It is possible to be informal and adopt a conversational style with a small audience , but the larger the audience the more formal your talk needs to be |
| 19 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 20 | There is a no we must n't , no , things are n't too bad , just leave it alone it 'll be okay , and somebody coming in and saying no that 's not the way you should look at it , that there is provocation if you 're gon na have a revolution it has got to be violent and it is right to be violent . |
| 21 | She is right to be worried . |
| 22 | The young man dead through sin ‘ is alive again ’ ( Luke 15:24 , 32 ) , ‘ so it is right to be glad ’ ( Meyer 1979:131 ) . |
| 23 | If there is a sound case which can be backed up by facts , if one is willing to be patient , determined and constructive , then politicians will listen and can be persuaded . |
| 24 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 25 | And yet he is the man who first made this needless quarrel , and now inflames it even when Glendower is disposed to be reasonable . |
| 26 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 27 | Where possible , seek an employer who is prepared to be flexible . |
| 28 | If North Korea is ready to return to the NPT fold , America is prepared to be flexible . |
| 29 | I found that the strictness with which these criteria are applied varies from region to region , and that the Department of Health is prepared to be flexible if you can argue a cogent case . |
| 30 | It is also important to find a hypnotherapist who is prepared to be frank and open with you and to answer all your questions . |