Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The mind — if unable to express creativity or creative impulses — exhibits frustration and evokes self-disdain for negative self-images and loss of self-worth ; the emotions — if subject to suppression or repression of essential human responses relating to love , understanding and compassion — are suffocated ; the harbouring and nurturing of accumulated aggressions , rejections or guilts , destroys the human ability to be receptive to positive influences , and depression , grief , hopelessness and helplessness all evoke a desire for self-annihilation if sustained ; the spirit — if unable to establish any connection between its personal nature and those higher elements which nourish it — eventually starves .
2 Rugby League : Iro offers the only reasons to be cheerful
3 A laccolith is a type of sill which has thickened to produce a dome which causes the overlying rock to be upwarped .
4 An interrupt causes the current PSW to be stored ( in main storage ) and a new PSW to be loaded .
5 This problem causes the available land to be used unevenly , and can lead to the birds ' droppings saturating the ground surrounding the house .
6 For each project , for example , LIFESPAN can be used from the directory which contains the relevant modules to be entered into LIFESPAN .
7 The visitor has the appropriate skills to be able to benefit from the use of the facility and its services .
8 Shabra Gold — PJ to his friends — has the right credentials to be top dog .
9 Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage .
10 He has the heavenly Spirit to be his teacher .
11 Yet the Spirit needs the human heart to be open .
12 Uhtred 's opinion was denounced as heretical at Oxford in 1367 — it tends to suggest no man needs the Christian Church to be saved .
13 In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’
14 Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 .
15 Labour wants the British people to be the best qualified and best trained people in Europe .
16 The Prime Minister wants the white paper to be approved by the full Cabinet tomorrow but differences between Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , and the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , over the number of pits to be saved has prevented agreement .
17 He has every good reason to be proud of the smooth , artistic lines of the completed building .
18 Allowing for stations under construction but yet to be commissioned , the board needs no new plant to be in place until 1997 in this scenario for energy growth .
19 Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question .
20 Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared .
21 Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared .
22 Just how black is n't fully apparent until about half-way through , when you discover that the glum little son ( a brilliant performance by a child , Bryan Madorsky ) of the happy couple ( Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt ) has a great deal to be disturbed about .
23 As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’
24 Anyone who decides to intervene in a family 's problems , even though it is at the family 's request , has a professional duty to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the methods used .
25 Has a whole army to be sent out to search for you whenever you 're needed ?
26 JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit .
27 But such a visit hardly needs a precise purpose to be fruitful .
28 When the light descends on the individual and the voice within speaks it has an equal right to be heard .
29 A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to .
30 So the chapter on scepticism which occurs in part I has an equal right to be in part II .
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