Example sentences of "to be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metabolic expression of the thrifty genotype favouring non-insulin dependent diabetes would appear to be via selective tissue insulin resistance and relatively high basal and stimulated insulin concentrations . |
| 2 | And , the more er , developed countries you get , the less trade there 's likely to be towards developing countries , who actually become more industrialized then the market leaders generally become more . |
| 3 | Would it be worthwhile for each discipline to set up think tanks — if one does not already exist — of their most imaginative scientists , engineers etc , with , perhaps , three remits : ( i ) to identify major problems for which current and foreseeable knowledge offers no solution ; ( ii ) to pinpoint what basic knowledge is needed , what would be the characteristics of the ideal chemical or other material , together with the relevant techniques for using them ; ( iii ) recognising that what is being considered may be so far out of sight as to be beyond worthwhile research based on existing knowledge and know-how , to organise a system that will recognise the first appearance of the new knowledge and then steer research in the right direction without delay . |
| 4 | They were sent away in turn in 1927 and No. 17 was at once declared to be beyond economic repair . |
| 5 | By demanding proof of guilt to be beyond reasonable doubt we accept that some accused who are probably guilty will be nonetheless acquitted . |
| 6 | In the event this 10.30 am five-minute slot , launched last week by ITV , turned out to be beyond neat description . |
| 7 | Our current legislation relating to elections restricts the right to vote and to be to British and other commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Irish republic . |
| 8 | oh well , we , really the weather 's not to bad , you , you have n't got to be to sensitive about things have you , you 've got to just take it enjoy the lot , enjoy |
| 9 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 10 | I mean , Helen Burn 's plea here is not to be to eager for retribution to come in this life , but trust to it erm |
| 11 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 12 | An obvious possibility was forsc = frog , but the combination with ‘ enclosure ’ appeared not to be over logical . |
| 13 | At the design stage it is easy to be over ambitious . |
| 14 | Arguments are more likely to be over domestic chores and money , than children or sex ( which caused very few rows indeed — only 11% ) . |
| 15 | As a result of her in fidelity and disloyalty to her country , the child was cursed from birth , rapidly growing to be over six-foot long with a snake 's tail and bat wings , and the head and mane of a black stallion . |
| 16 | This has proved to be over optimistic as Haymarket was forced to withdraw from the purchase after a key investor pulled out . |
| 17 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 18 | It is always best to be over generous with foundations since any cracking which occurs here will immediately cause cracking in the wall itself . |
| 19 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 20 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |
| 21 | The key battle is likely to be between brilliant Torino player Enzo Scifo and Welsh skipper Barry Horne , who said : ‘ Schifo and Hagi of Romania are probably the best two midfield players in the world . |
| 22 | The race for the two promotion places in Division One appears to be between top three sides Sudbury Wanderers , Soham and Woodbridge , who were all victorious . |
| 23 | When the only choice appears to be between continuing depression or continuing the various problems associated with drink or drug use , it is small wonder that sufferers from Chemical Dependency constitute 30% of those people who commit suicide . |
| 24 | Yet as far as discourse structure is concerned , a more fundamental distinction seems to be between formal , planned discourse , which may be either written or spoken , and less formal , unplanned discourse which — though it may also be either written or spoken — is usually associated with speech . |
| 25 | To be pre booked and pre paid before departure . |
| 26 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 27 | Both men are thought to be about 19-years-old . |
| 28 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 29 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 30 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |