Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [pron] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be something endemic to the more ferocious subterranean dweller about suspicion , aggression , an unquestioning pack instinct backed up by heedless hostility to all outsiders . |
| 2 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |
| 3 | Of course , windmills could be placed offshore , then perhaps there might be something attractive to seeing these structures out at sea at some distance — they could even be beyond the horizon — but they thought that they are whirling round usefully providing our energy I think could make them acceptable , and there is no doubt that the worldwide research and success in windmill research at the moment would suggest that wind power is within sight , but the economic investment and the problems of siting certainly mean that it will be only introduced gradually . |
| 4 | Of course , I realised that it was an example of pure coincidence and that there could be nothing more to it . |
| 5 | For Mr Major it will be something medium to spicy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We have made Ygelda the new Steward , and she says it will be nothing new to her for Gwion was always running to her for help . ’ |