Example sentences of "is [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 2 | It is humiliating to be left and gratifying when the leaver shows signs of repentance and regret . |
| 3 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 4 | This may lead some health workers , families and older people themselves to believe that there is little to be done to improve the circumstances of people with care needs . |
| 5 | There is little to be gained from refusing to do so , but if you object to the warning for some reason , you should make that clear and pursue your rights under the appeals procedure . |
| 6 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 7 | There is little to be gained in trying out something which one already knows to be inadequate . |
| 8 | There is little to be achieved by scolding a dog when this happens as this simply adds to the emotional charge linked to your reappearance . |
| 9 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |
| 10 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 11 | With such limited information there is little to be gained by interleaving the two processors since neither can provide much assistance to the other processor . |
| 12 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 13 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 14 | There is little to be gained from this however . |
| 15 | It is understandable to be worried and scared if you think you might have been exposed to HIV . |
| 16 | By 1993 , a HK$4bn airport that is to be built on reclaimed land off the island of Taipa is due to be opened . |
| 17 | A final version is due to be endorsed by China 's parliament , the National People 's Congress , in March . |
| 18 | Space shuttle Atlantis is due to be launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , on Thursday . |
| 19 | The economy is crumbling , and the country 's foreign debt is due to be rescheduled by next June . |
| 20 | The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said Selahattin Osberk , 30 , who is due to be put on a flight to Istanbul today , should be granted refugee status and has a well-founded fear of persecution . |
| 21 | Another Kurd represented by Mr Hanley , Halil Guzel , is due to be deported on another flight to Istanbul this afternoon . |
| 22 | More soon of this exciting saga , which is due to be turned into a TV epic or will be if we can fix up a deal with anyone . |
| 23 | The book will cost £20 and is due to be released in the near future . |
| 24 | Legislation on the scheme is due to be unveiled in the Queen 's Speech on November 21 . |
| 25 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 26 | The French President and some other EC governments believe the new system should be ready for operation by the end of 1992 when the single barrier and frontier free European market is due to be completed . |
| 27 | Formerly at Woburn Abbey , it is due to be sold to the Getty Museum in California . |
| 28 | Clearly working under the pressure of the speed of events in central Europe , the West Europeans have decided to go all out to form a united economic bloc , if possible by the end of next year , but at all costs by January 1992 when the EC internal market is due to be completed . |
| 29 | The final game of the series is due to be played tomorrow in Lahore . |
| 30 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |