Example sentences of "am [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 2 | However , the major problem , and you Ma'am have already touched upon this as well as the Chairman and I am sorry to be repetitive but we do serve all yachtsmen , two and a half to three million of them whilst being financially supported by only sixty five thousand of them . |
| 3 | Erm there was I am sorry to be boring but there are all these action points from the previous meeting Oh yes I forgot the action points do you feel we have covered them . |
| 4 | I am sorry to be concerned , I do n't know what he wants to pour something down my throat and this is . |
| 5 | I am prepared to be convinced that that is not the case and that the Government mean well and intend to try to open up educational opportunity to everyone , no matter their class background . |
| 6 | As one of our valued customers I am delighted to be able to make you this exceptional ‘ Saint and Greavsie ’ offer : |
| 7 | I am delighted to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that our policy on capital expenditure is to encourage and enable higher education institutions to invest , as they need to do , to accommodate the dramatic increase in student numbers as well as provide facilities for the research of remarkable quality which takes place in so many of our universities . |
| 8 | I am delighted to be able to say that I have just received notice from the Department of the Environment that Chorley is to be allocated an additional amount for doing up old housing — nearly £0.25 million . |
| 9 | I am delighted to be able to send you a copy of the report prepared by my review group called ‘ Building on Ability : Sport for people with disabilities ’ . |
| 10 | I am delighted to be able to express my congratulations to the Society on the occasion of its 40th anniversary celebrations . |
| 11 | Now I am delighted to be able to hand over the spot-light to my three management colleagues on the management team . |
| 12 | ‘ I am delighted to be able to do this . |
| 13 | I am delighted to be able to help my constituency . |
| 14 | About the rest I am content to be agnostic . ’ |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I am lucky to be alive . ’ |
| 16 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 17 | I am glad to be able to reach this conclusion . |
| 18 | I am glad to be able to participate in this debate . |
| 19 | I am glad to be able to enlighten the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , especially when he talks in terms of what has happened to the numbers of unemployed during Labour Governments . |
| 20 | I am glad to be able to contribute briefly to the debate on the Bill , although I can see that there will not be a meeting of the minds . |
| 21 | She recently wrote to me and I am glad to be able to respond more fully now than was possible in correspondence . |
| 22 | I am glad to be able to help the hospice in this small way . ’ |
| 23 | I am glad to be free again . |
| 24 | ‘ I am unable to be confident from Mr. Eliot 's writings , ’ iris Murdoch once reproachfully wrote in a theoretical defence of realism , ‘ that he has ever enjoyed and admired any novel . ’ |
| 25 | As you know , I am unable to be present at this meeting . |
| 26 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 27 | I am ashamed to be British ! |
| 28 | I am proud to be one of the last apprentices |
| 29 | I am proud to come from this area , I am proud to be British , I will always be proud to serve this democracy . ’ |
| 30 | I am proud to be British , proud to have won honours for all of the people . |