Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be surprised to learn that I am still in Nanking : I 've been in hospital for 6 days with gastro-enteritis , but I 'm glad to say now I 'm fine , and am due to travel to Shanghai tomorrow . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the government has not yet backed up this realization with sufficient hard cash , and the benefits available for supporting relatives are paltry compared to the costs incurred by the state if someone is in long-term institutional care . |
| 3 | Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own . |
| 4 | ‘ This has come out of the blue , and we are due to go to Argentina next summer , ’ said Wood . |
| 5 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 6 | According to security sources , she is likely to return to London around January 6 , well before her sons are due to return to their boarding school at Ludgrove , Berks . |
| 7 | From Antwerp she had gone to Santander , where she had been due to return to London , but had been diverted to Bilbao instead . |
| 8 | The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration . |
| 9 | We now know that babies whose mothers are depressed continue to be affected even after the mother has recovered . |
| 10 | Reverting again to the 11+ , it would have been possible to respond to the results of the tests by saying , ‘ boys are less able at age 11 — they are failing to make proper use of their primary school education ’ or , as in fact happened , by removing the responsibility from individual boys and situating it elsewhere , in this instance in biology . |
| 11 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 12 | Folk that maybe would have been shy to go to a |
| 13 | Environmentalists as well as scientists have been afraid to admit to having emotions or sentiments . |
| 14 | Reports of the funding , which had been illicit according to the law of the former Soviet Union , had begun to emerge in recent months , and the Russian government hoped that some of the money might be recoverable . |
| 15 | How individuals come across on television usually depends on how much understanding , effort and practice they are prepared to give to it . |
| 16 | The more interested pupils are in what they write , the more attention they are prepared to give to its appearance , including spelling . |
| 17 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 18 | I do not believe that the British public are prepared to move to a property tax . |
| 19 | We have to assure counsellees that we are prepared to listen to their difficulties . |
| 20 | A good example is the ‘ right ’ to tax diversion ( see Dignan , Chapter 6 ) — while British Courts are prepared to listen to arguments based on statutory rights , and may well be prepared to listen to arguments grounded in International Law , they are far less willing , at present , to accept arguments based on concepts of ( natural ) rights . |
| 21 | You will find that people will confide in you and tell you their secrets and unveil their emotions if you are prepared to listen to them . |
| 22 | But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems . |
| 23 | If tens of thousands of people are prepared to take to the streets and to camp outside obscure air-force bases for months on end , what will they do when cruise becomes a reality ? |
| 24 | ‘ Fraulein , I understand from Bruno that you are prepared to swear to a document that Corporal Blagg brought you some death certificates on the night when Herr Hochhauser — ( thank God he had remembered the name ) ‘ — the Standesbeamte from Bad Schwarzendorn was murdered . |
| 25 | For as each of the speakers agreed , it will be those booksellers and publishers who are prepared to respond to new and changing circumstances , while preserving the best of the old order , who will ultimately reap the benefit . |
| 26 | The key to successful time management is knowing what you want to achieve , how much it means to you , and how much of your time and energy you are prepared to devote to it . |
| 27 | Both men are prepared to talk to me : Carmichael went out of his way to , and now he even employs me . |
| 28 | Few financial institutions are prepared to lend to proprietors and partnerships on this basis . |
| 29 | I AM writing to ask if any readers have business cards — not necessarily their own — which they are prepared to donate to my collection with the hope that , one day , it may be large enough to gain some form of record . |
| 30 | the Government will throw aside the whole of these [ competition ] plans and consider what accommodation it is they want , and what sum of money they are prepared to propose to Parliament , and then let them obtain plans suited to the expenditure they propose . |