Example sentences of "[be] perfectly [adj] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm not I think bound ny anything you have said this afternoon , it 's just , if you 're able to indication or you , if you want to keep your powder dry you 're perfectly entitled to do so |
| 2 | She knew a lot about birds — she 'd have been perfectly able to do a short stint , teaching them to fly and so forth . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's obviously irritating and awkward for us that they have changed their minds , but they are perfectly entitled to do that ’ , explains George Gordon of the Old Masters department . |
| 4 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 5 | If the training and enterprise councils think it appropriate to make some of those funds available for unemployed people , they are perfectly free to do so . |
| 6 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 7 | As things stood then — and indeed as things still stand in 1984 — they would be perfectly entitled to do so . |
| 8 | Ah , I was just going to say , if it had n't already been done , erm Friends of the Earth will be perfectly willing to do that . . |
| 9 | Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do . |
| 10 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 11 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |