Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 2 | The prerequisite for successful collaboration , therefore , was shared planning ; the precondition for such planning to be coherent was shared values . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 5 | This will always be Crisp 's Grand National . |
| 6 | Millions of people work away from their desks , so the situations where such a computer may be appropriate are widespread . |
| 7 | To be married is life-protective for both sexes but more so for men than for women . |
| 8 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 9 | Any room and meal supplements that may be applicable are payable in full . |
| 10 | This reduction in pleural thickening could also be seen on the chest x ray ( Fig 5 ) making it very likely that the pleural thickening noted initially in October 1990 and thought then to be unimportant was neoplastic from the outset . |
| 11 | It is best NOT to use people whose handicap is so severe that they would be awkward being involved in this procession . |
| 12 | While the abilities to read , write , and be numerate are essential for negotiating one 's way in society , their acquisition also has a profound impact on the nature of mental life . |
| 13 | The knowledge that a project is likely to be post-audited is useful for keeping management on its toes , not only in their evaluation of investment proposals but also in the implementation and operation of an investment programme . |
| 14 | To allow a dog with arthritis to be overweight is tantamount to cruelty and Eukanuba is excellent as a complete food . |
| 15 | The other motives that seem to be important are social , community , housing and family reasons . |
| 16 | He takes an impish delight in shocking the press and dismaying the clients as he prepares to change direction : ‘ To be provocative is important , and change is vital for personal survival . |
| 17 | to be involved in groups be persuasive be willing to give time … to be approachable be persevering |
| 18 | Even its efforts to be indelicate are dull . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The principle that justice should , as far as possible , be open is central to our system of criminal justice . |
| 21 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 22 | Chemical company Rohm and Haas , Hebburn Reyrolle and furniture firm Be Modern are major employers . |
| 23 | The expectation that such people will normally be female is self-fulfilling , but may be neither equitable nor efficient . |
| 24 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 25 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 26 | As far as women who would be Christian are concerned , how may they see in the Godhead an image of themselves ? |
| 27 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 28 | Tale-telling on each other and inciting each other to be naughty are frequent problems faced by parents of young children . |
| 29 | Whether such a policy would be desirable is debatable , but certainly no society has been willing to divert the necessary resources to the police in order to come anywhere near such a policy . |