Example sentences of "be [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | and to pursue the options that are are available to us , and that 's what I hope the Treasurer will do , er , and this is all we 're approving at the moment , and that an an and to find out just what the , how the land lies , what the best position is , what interest rates that we might be able to get , and over what period and I I I er support this er er er er this expense bud budget . |
| 2 | That 's why trainers are are good to everybody . |
| 3 | We do n't even have an effective definition of who the auditors er are are are responsible to . |
| 4 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 5 | ‘ Lucenzo , I know you 're being loyal to your client , and I can admire that — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Now you 're being unfair to yourself , ’ Reynolds told her . |
| 7 | erm If you can call somebody an expert , that means you 're being rude to him . |
| 8 | It does n't necessarily mean you 're gon na get it but it means that you 're being true to yourself because you 're putting your point across . |
| 9 | Tablets which look like the sweet Smarties but are be harmful to children have been lost in Gloucestershire . |
| 10 | When I 'm being beastly to him , he has such a way of looking sorry for himself that I begin to hate myself . |
| 11 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 12 | It is different from country to country , and I sometimes feel I mean I 'm not sure whether I 'm being unfair to our industry here , but it does seem to me that perhaps we have n't quite got our act together yet , we 're going in the right direction , but we have n't quite got there . |
| 13 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 14 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 16 | A recent meeting took place between IBOA and Management of National Irish Bank regarding the review of Pilot Branches that are being Sub-Officed to larger Branches . |
| 17 | ‘ All over the world today children are starving , men and women are being cruel to one another and killing one another . |
| 18 | Commercial blends of enriched isolates of aerobic bacteria are being used to clean-up petroleum hydrocarbons in soil and groundwater , with the predominant organisms being Pseudomonas species . |
| 19 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 20 | They are being frightened to death . ’ |
| 21 | I doubt , therefore , that scientists engaged in military research are being irresponsible to science . |
| 22 | I do not doubt however , that they are being irresponsible to the world , to humanity and to life on Earth . |
| 23 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 24 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 25 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 26 | Even the teachers were being nice to him , and he did not understand why . |
| 27 | A major development of the area had taken place , the CNAA was being seen to be ‘ fierce ’ in its approach , and institutions were being obliged to be ‘ thorough ’ . |
| 28 | Would you feel you were being disloyal to Medau ? |
| 29 | Now the wrinkles are starting to show , all I can do is be good to myself . |
| 30 | The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show . |