Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Included are a number of ex-Aeroflot Antonov An-2 biplanes which are reported to be airworthy and available for sale at $600 each . |
| 2 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 3 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 4 | Even when drastic revision is seen to be necessary and accepted , the point in time at which to conduct this extensive review can be difficult to select . |
| 5 | The Defendants had to prove these communications were not records because if they were deemed records then the records management responsibility clearly stated each agency ‘ maintain an active , continuing programme for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency ‘ with ‘ safeguards against the removal or loss of records he ( the agency head ) determines to be necessary and required by the Archivist . ’ |
| 6 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 7 | Well , if I ca n't have Heathcliff as my friend , if Edgar is going to be mean and jealous , I 'll try to break both their hearts by breaking my own . |
| 8 | Over the first nine pages of the book , George appears to be mean and irritable towards Lennie , and seems to treat him very heartlessly , but throughout the book we are shown that the two men depend on one another very much , and they have a very strong relationship . |
| 9 | As most of the older women wear saris , they consider fashionable clothes to be unnecessary and irrelevant , and ca n't understand the desires of someone like me , who wants to dress in a fashionable manner in the Western world . |
| 10 | We consider the proposal to introduce Faculty examinations to be unnecessary and unhelpful to the profession as a whole for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | According to the Crown 's argument , this provision seems to be unnecessary and must have been included in the Act ( and presumably also in the draft Bill ) as a mere matter of convenience . |
| 12 | Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | Whichever way round it is , the task , complicated by the anthropologist 's limited mastery of the vernacular , is apt to be taxing and to require tact and patience of a high order . |
| 14 | The results of the second set of tests again turned out to be negative and she refused any further investigation . |
| 15 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 16 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 17 | This may seem frustrating , but the package does encourage you to be inquisitive and venture into new subjects . |
| 18 | Autumn passage appears to be slight and may be under-recorded , since many August and September records appear to relate to passage rather than resident birds . |
| 19 | He is believed to be honest and is known for his involvement in the army-backed project for ‘ Green Esarn ’ . |
| 20 | But I have to be honest and say we tried to join flesh again all our lives . |
| 21 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 22 | ‘ But I have to be honest and say I never marked her as someone who was going to become a great journalist . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm an artist who likes to be honest and confront . |
| 24 | It was held , that the directors of R Co owed a duty to their shareholders which included the duty to be honest and not to mislead . |
| 25 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 26 | I 'd have to be honest and say , yes , I would n't argue , ’ says a married 35-yearold estate agent . |
| 27 | We trust you to be honest and note any adverse reaction on your chart ! |
| 28 | You get on the back of everything vital , everything trying to be honest and free , and you bear it down . |
| 29 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 30 | I wanted to be honest and say I 'd |