Example sentences of "'s [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't seem to believe that it 's possible to be a rogue and a good man at the same time . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a continuing theme ; dance is fickle and chews up styles so quickly it 's possible to be last week 's thing when your work is still relevant : ‘ Electro was given a bad name by break-dancing , ’ reckons David . |
| 3 | But the good news is , with the aid of these space age products , it 's possible to be prettier than ever before . |
| 4 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 5 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 6 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 7 | ‘ Lucky for him , his alibi is as watertight as it 's possible to be , unless the college Principal , half his staff and all his students are Iying . |
| 8 | It 's not difficult with small creatures , but with the large ones it 's possible to be a hundred pounds or so out , and an overdose could be dangerous for the animal . |
| 9 | The best you can do is be as careful as it 's possible to be . ’ |
| 10 | While I certainly do n't mind playing those roles it 's fabulous to be offered something meaty . ’ |
| 11 | A lot of men are distraught at not being able to give birth and there 's little to be done about that . |
| 12 | It 's awful to be last , is n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | Let us imagine that they meet and the man begins : ‘ Darling , it 's awful to be apart from you . |
| 14 | ‘ Poor baby , it 's awful to be so misunderstood ’ , slammed Germaine Greer in Oz22 . |
| 15 | It 's strange to be in Strathspeld , to be in the house and not have seen Mr and Mrs Gould . |
| 16 | " It 's humiliating to be worth more dead than alive . " |
| 17 | And Ros was just saying I mean sh on that , on that Friday she 's due to be in work on that Friday night and it comes on a day she 'll paid time off aspect . |
| 18 | It 's old and dirty , and I think it 's due to be condemned in ten years ’ time . ’ |
| 19 | It 's due to be broadcast on |
| 20 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 21 | He 's due to be questioned by officers from the Thames Valley region and may be charged with kidnapping and possession of firearms . |
| 22 | It 's due to be heard at the town 's magistrates court later this week . |
| 23 | And that 's due to be published next month . |
| 24 | I , I mean if , we know how much is outstanding on each one , we know when it 's due to be paid , we know it 's gon na be about eight hundred policies a section , is it , ten thousand ? |
| 25 | She 's right to be upset . |
| 26 | One can tell from his present ability that he 's right to be sorry , he might have gone on to be a famous international . |
| 27 | As for being ‘ alarmist ’ , it 's right to be ultra cautious ( even to the extent of junking an untrustworthy drive ) when you 're using a hard disk to store valuable data . |
| 28 | M. You seem to think it 's right to be wrong . |
| 29 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 30 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |