Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It revealed Docherty to be a witty , compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past . |
| 2 | Denholm was totally unfitted to be a naval officer of any kind and his highly defective eyesight should have led to his automatic disbarment from any navy in the world . |
| 3 | AU heraldic insignia were shamingly torn from his coat , signifying that he was unfitted to be a knight . |
| 4 | She looked too plain and sensible to be a ghost . |
| 5 | are quite prepared to be a minority of one if they think they are right |
| 6 | You have to be prepared to be a bit dumb . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm quite prepared to be a single mum and I 've had offers from male friends who 'd like children but do n't want a wife , and I 'm tempted . |
| 8 | Do not barge in if you think you are in the wrong , be prepared to be a little late , or concede the best position , but do not be bullied by those who shout at you . |
| 9 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |
| 10 | Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs . |
| 11 | She noticed that he continued to work , apparently unaware that he was entirely unsuited to be a dogsbody , and stifled a sigh . |
| 12 | Armstrong was too clichéd to be a student vehicle these days , unless it was a London-based medical student ; they are well-known to be from another planet ten years behind the times . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm a little too old to be a sex symbol ’ Neil Diamond ( 51 ) |
| 14 | The young man with her was neither of the men who had temporarily lent her their names : too young to be a discarded husband , he was too old to be a son . |
| 15 | Lansdowne came first because he had been leader in the House of Lords since 1902 ; he was too old to be a rival to Law and he cooperated with him fully , though not without some condescension . |
| 16 | Morpurgo was too old to be a contemporary of Clare Mallender 's : he was closer to Dysart in age . |
| 17 | Adding peevishly , and somewhat incoherently , ‘ I 'm too old to be a virgin at my age . ’ |
| 18 | Can you be too old to be a cox ? |
| 19 | Much more interesting to be a part of the making of it . ’ |
| 20 | Recently when one girl , in her end-of-term questionnaire , wrote that after the course she ‘ no longer felt afraid to be a sexually attractive woman ’ , Sobchak claimed her greatest triumph . |
| 21 | ‘ You are afraid to be a woman . ’ |
| 22 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 23 | I was still under-housemaid , because you had to be very clever to be a head housemaid or head still-room maid ; and I said : |
| 24 | It was much , much easier to be mischievous , to be slightly bad ; and while , of course , being very good was an infinity , an eternity , away from being very bad , being a bit bad was very similar to being a bit good and unfortunately offered more opportunities for fun . |
| 25 | There are lots of things about being a Guide which are similar to being a Brownie — but there are also lots of new and exciting things for you to look forward to . |
| 26 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 27 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 28 | There are large numbers of executions , lots of people are er taken off to prison , many people in fear and despair and demoralization drop out of the Communist Party , it 's particularly dangerous to be a Communist Party member in the major cities where the repression is most intense and where the security forces er are most numerous . |
| 29 | For Regan , then , the partnership model is too imprecise to be a useful analytical tool ; hence the need for an alternative insight . |
| 30 | I am sorry if Stella has found it uncomfortable to be a female president . |