Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 2 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 3 | She told Macedonian radio : ‘ My colleagues are willing to join me in concerts in several cities in former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 4 | Market leaders Peugeot and Citroen are likely to hold plenty in stock . |
| 5 | People like Jack are supposed to represent us in Parliament and he comes out with nonsense like that . |
| 6 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 7 | He said he had been unable to take it in moderation , and then , in a long illness , he was forbidden liquor , so when the habit had been broken he never returned to it . |
| 8 | Since their premises are not open to the public , and they do not engage in retail trade , they are able to establish themselves in locations where overheads are cheaper . |
| 9 | The complicated problems surrounding the temperature management of prepared food for volume consumption are all too apparent by the time you get your meal on the plate and are able to eat it in comfort . |
| 10 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 11 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 12 | Perhaps the headmaster had been able to reassure her in ways that were not open to Robert . |
| 13 | So far , we 've been able to keep him in check . |
| 14 | In a series of conversations with the Frenchman Didier Eribon published by Thames and Hudson this month , Sir Ernst Gombrich , former director of the Warburg Institute and one of the most distinguished academics of our time ( yet one of the most accessible because of his belief that it should be possible to explain everything in language that can be understood by a child ) , talks about the development of his ideas , his values and the events which contributed to their formation . |
| 15 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 16 | The US government refused rebel demands for military assistance on the grounds that it would be wrong to involve itself in Iraq 's internal affairs . |
| 17 | I had promised thinking it would be easy to order everything in England and ship it out . |
| 18 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 19 | She 'd be lucky to get anyone in fact . |
| 20 | It might be great to have something in Torquay if you 're hoping to draw visitors from the southwest , but not if you 're trying to pull a big public audience from Tyneside . |
| 21 | But it may be well to keep it in existence . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As to the rest , we would be stupid to appoint you in command if we intended to ignore your direction , however , you must agree to submit to Alexei , s will in all things which touch upon the aims of our embassy . ’ |
| 23 | Whether your idea of leisure is fishing in the Thames , hitting a ball or watching a film you will be able to do it in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | And she hopes her youngest children will be able to join her in Canada . |
| 25 | ‘ No doubt the rest of you will be able to see him in action next week , on Parents ’ Evening , ’ proceeded Mr Crumwallis , smoothly bland . |
| 26 | In an attempt to obtain a good price , he paid a stud fee of over £1,400 to have her covered again so that he would be able to sell her in foal at the December 1974 sales . |
| 27 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 28 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 29 | Erm the geometry one that we did n't look at , you might be able to spot it in minutes , |
| 30 | ‘ And will you be able to leave somebody in charge of the animals ? ’ he asked Edwin . |