Example sentences of "to [being] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 2 | Put him in a coach now and by morning Russell might be used to being close to white people again . |
| 3 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 4 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 6 | In a previous book , King of the Confessors , Hoving admits to being able to ‘ lie convincingly without any hesitation ’ . |
| 7 | I think wind power is perhaps one of the alternative energy sources which is erm nearest to being able to be applied and utilised immediately . |