Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
2 | There are spacious loungers , a bar providing waiter service to the garden terrace , a restaurant that opens onto the lovely gardens offering buffet style breakfast , and a mixed buffet and waiter service dinner . |
3 | I was also beginning to see why Edward had been loth to speak openly about his work . |
4 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
5 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
6 | We are sorry to lose her . |
7 | Some Leeds players are sorry to see Cantona go , but remain confident of doing well without him . |
8 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
9 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
10 | We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances . |
11 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
12 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
13 | I think it would have been absurd to have imposed upon police authorities a uniform number |
14 | 8 Consider other forms of giveaway where products are unsuitable to offer as samples or gifts . |
15 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
16 | It would have been simpler to post the cheque . |
17 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
18 | The seat has been Labour held since before 1945 . |
19 | The cones are receptive to colour and to higher lighting levels . |
20 | Environmentalists are right to argue for strong controls on the way waste is managed . |
21 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
22 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
23 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
24 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
25 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
26 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
27 | In Shenley , Hertfordshire , and Epsom , Surrey , plans are afoot to build residential houses , even though the plots of land are right smack inside the greenbelt . |
28 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
29 | They are right to do so , because it can lead to serious problems if it persists . |
30 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |