Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 3 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 4 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 5 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 6 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 7 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 9 | He concludes : ‘ I am content to take whichever of these options you prefer . ’ |
| 10 | They 're sure to embarrass themselves in some way , |
| 11 | They 're good to watch something like this . |
| 12 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 13 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 14 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 15 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 16 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 17 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 18 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 19 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 20 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 21 | I regret that I am unable to assist you with this aspect at this time . |
| 22 | When information technology users are in doubt about what to buy , who to buy it from , and whether or not they can afford it , they are apt to buy nothing at all . |
| 23 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 24 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 25 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 26 | As it was , Europe had not been able to supply herself with all her needs since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 28 | Losing them was bitter , and my only reward is that now I can afford the one thing which with all my wealth and power I 've never been able to permit myself until this moment . |
| 29 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |