Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better be polite to them , ’ advised Reid . |
| 2 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 3 | Firstly , during the negotiations the purchaser will naturally be concerned to be reassured as to what it saw at the outset as being the merits of the proposed acquisition . |
| 4 | The generality of the ANLT system will obviously be ill-suited to certain aspects of any specific problem . |
| 5 | but would obviously be beneficial to them and |
| 6 | Some critics , arguing from the cases of Blake and Keats , have assumed that a ‘ Romantic ’ poet would obviously be hostile to the demands of a university dominated by the influence of Newton . |
| 7 | Such plans will henceforth be subject to approval from CCMLR ; , A limit of 1.5 million tonnes has been set on the amount of krill that can be caught . |
| 8 | However , within the single language LISP , access could , with appropriate effort , be made to the translation of GO-SHOPPING(x) as a sequence beginning WALK(x) , but the subsequent access from WALK(x) to the yet lower-level sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG(x) is far more dubious , whatever the effort required , since that would normally have been compiled and so be inaccessible to the higher level in question , even though , as we saw , one can , in the human case , impose a new translation of WALK , in the place of the existing one . |
| 9 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 10 | The reality of meaning therefore , would only be accessible to some idealized third person who was able to observe the relation between the particulars . |
| 11 | Language may not only be ill-adapted to communication ( as Professor Chomsky shows us in chapter 3 ) , it 's also in principle , and quite often in practice , unnecessary . |
| 12 | From graph ( c ) , however , we see that the transactions demand will only be equal to £30 million when national income is £45 million . |
| 13 | It can only be confusing to a pupil if features of dialect are ‘ corrected ’ at the same time and in the same way as , for example , spelling errors . |
| 14 | The principles thus stated apply not only to national legislation which has been specifically adopted to implement a directive but also should only be applicable to any national legislation adopted after the directive . |
| 15 | If an SSR refers to a number of modules but will only be applicable to some of them after approval , then a new SSR should be created referencing only those modules to which the report still applies . |
| 16 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 17 | It need only be relevant to the wellbeing of the employer 's business . |
| 18 | For the combination of studying alongside those with other career intentions and of blending literary and scientific studies can only be beneficial to the future teacher . |
| 19 | We can conclude that an increase in national income will only be equivalent to an increase in real output per capita if both prices and the population remain unchanged . |
| 20 | The subtleties of shape that ensure that both halves of the tongs fit together and work , may only be apparent to the smith . |
| 21 | Artists who may only be familiar to a West Coast audience but whose rehabilitation was launched by Norman Rosenthal at the Royal Academy are Billy Al Bengston , Mel Ramos and Wayne Thiebaud . |
| 22 | The loss of basic medical sciences can only be detrimental to clinical teaching and research and to the staff of university hospitals . |
| 23 | ‘ These statistics show a worsening of relations between banks and construction that can only be detrimental to the country pulling out of recession . |
| 24 | In some particularly difficult circumstances , such as constructing a footpath on deep peat , it could only be four to five metres a day . |
| 25 | The Court allowed the appeal to the extent that the security would only be enforceable to the amount of the husband 's interest , £60,000 . |
| 26 | The initiating member should offer an incentive to all Network members to encourage the submission of original prospective purchaser suggestions , in the form of a success fee equal to , for instance , 10% of the total estimated engagement fee and which would only be payable to a Network member 's firm if the following conditions are satisfied : |
| 27 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 28 | The results of the transplantation experiment may only be due to the transplanted salmon following the lead of the native salmon . |
| 29 | The 386SX machine Xtradrive was installed on showed no tendency to run Windows any the slower — in fact there seemed to be a positive speed benefit , which could only be due to the quicker load times compressed files must enjoy . |
| 30 | This can only be due to Coleridge 's awareness and heightened sensitivity at these moments , which cause him ponder on his very means of creation and that of the emotions that cause him to write , which are therefore in a positive sense creative forces . |