Example sentences of "to be [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And use you 're you 're not going it 's not going to be negative is it ? |
| 2 | I think one of the things , to be honest is to avoid the traffic . |
| 3 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 4 | The situation where such clauses are most likely to be reasonable is one where prior negotiations have been complex , with many oral discussions and lots of paper work passing between the parties , so that it is equally to the advantage of both parties to create certainty by describing all of their rights and liabilities in one defined set of documents and excluding all extraneous issues . |
| 5 | I believe the enormous pressure put on women to be skinny is the most important feminist issue in Western society . |
| 6 | These meant to be archived are they ? |
| 7 | In Amoco Lord Cross said the fact that a covenantor had obtained and would continue to enjoy benefits under the agreement which he claimed to be unenforceable was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 8 | ‘ The need to be vigilant is as great now as it ever was . ’ |
| 9 | The prerequisite for successful collaboration , therefore , was shared planning ; the precondition for such planning to be coherent was shared values . |
| 10 | To Ellen , my wish to be mysterious was a hoot . |
| 11 | The business community recognises that those enterprises deemed to be successful are those which are responsive to market changes . |
| 12 | For some people the ambition to be liked and to be successful is a contradictory objective . |
| 13 | It is also the age of consent for sexual intercourse , and therefore for a girl under this age to be pregnant is proof that an illegal act has taken place . |
| 14 | Many feminists who wish to be religious are indeed doing just that . |
| 15 | To vary the analogy , not to be religious is already to have invested money in what is as high a risk venture as an investment in religion . |
| 16 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 17 | The precise nature and length of the transition period to Europe 's monetary unification have yet to be determined while agreement on the political and economic structures required for the Community 's monetary union to be durable is unlikely to be reached before the mid-1990s . |
| 18 | is going to be minimal is n't it ? |
| 19 | There is also evidence that many who have the financial means to be mobile are actually committing themselves to post-retirement migration . |
| 20 | Since the framework gave no hint of the long periods of time during which tool types were in use , sites that were originally considered to be contemporary were subsequently found to be separated by hundreds or thousands of years . |
| 21 | It is commonplace to be second best , but to be best is to be unique |
| 22 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 23 | The conflict in which the state is supposed to be neutral is about the ability of people to choose and successfully pursue conceptions of the good ( and these include ideals of the good society or world ) . |
| 24 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 25 | In non-western countries the model of health care which has been imported and which is still often considered to be optimal is one based on the same medical model . |
| 26 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 27 | Eh , it , it 's going to be closed is that account in December and re-opened . |
| 28 | However , the Ayr plant with 1,000 employees seems to be Digital 's preferred site ahead of a similar plant at Galway where 1,200 jobs are now at risk . |
| 29 | Encouraging children to wish to be good is more important than making them be good . |
| 30 | The only authentic way to be good is to be good ‘ for nothing ’ : that was to become the ringing insistence of her finest treatise , The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) . |