Example sentences of "[prep] [be] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I assume that we sort of are happy with the format that there should be a national curriculum level and there should be a general skills and abilities ? |
| 2 | You can pay for , a group of you if you want , you know , i if some of are happy to , you know , there 'll be two or three of you that will help . |
| 3 | Indeed in The Times article already quoted Roger Scruton was particularly scornful of the Vice-Chancellors for their apparent readiness to change : they were accused of being interested only in the quantity , not the quality , of students ; and of being happy to lower their standards , and offer as items in university courses ‘ subjects ’ which have no proved intellectual value . |
| 4 | ‘ You have transformed a poor runaway slave into a man still capable of being happy . |
| 5 | Often they were just on the edge of being happy . |
| 6 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 7 | A surge produces a feeling of being happy and alert . |
| 8 | But I ca n't , me , I mean , I 've got ta be happy cos a it 's the only thing today , is happy . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's preventing you from being happy ? ’ |
| 10 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 11 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |
| 12 | Here it was impossible not to be happy . |
| 13 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 14 | She was n't meant to be happy , she was meant to be with me . |
| 15 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 16 | ‘ I want my children , Harriet and Tom , to be happy and rounded and good , and the same for me and my husband Hugh , and my house and my supper table . |
| 17 | Knox modestly demurred , but the meeting was said to be happy and humorous . |
| 18 | ACHINESE proverb has it that if you want to be happy for a week , get married ; for a month , kill a pig ; for a lifetime , plant a garden . |
| 19 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 20 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 21 | ‘ To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition . ' ’ |
| 22 | Despite her determination to be happy , she still suffered from chaotic dreams , and quickly plunged into everyday activity to save herself from the terrors of her own mind . |
| 23 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 24 | Wanted to be happy — Here ! ’ |
| 25 | He wants his trees to be happy in their new environment for obvious commercial reasons . |
| 26 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 27 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 28 | The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy . |
| 29 | I know you 're both going to be happy together . |
| 30 | There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy . |