Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " 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 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 8 | So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 11 | The climate in the classroom must be one where children feel that their ideas are valued so that they are willing to commit themselves in public . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He concludes : ‘ I am content to take whichever of these options you prefer . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 15 | No , you 're supposed to cook them from frozen . |
| 16 | They 're sure to embarrass themselves in some way , |
| 17 | They 're good to watch something like this . |
| 18 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 19 | Are suitable writing materials easily available if the children are likely to need them for reflective work ? |
| 20 | Many of the Socialist ‘ heavyweights ’ , such as Michel Rocard ( the official Socialist presidential candidate ) , Pierre Beregovoy ( the outgoing prime minister ) , Jack Lang ( outgoing culture and education minister ) and Roland Dumas ( outgoing foreign minister ) , are likely to find themselves in severe difficulties in the second round of voting next Sunday . |
| 21 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 22 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 25 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 28 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 29 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 30 | 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 . |