Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy was beginning to find it rather odd to be having this day out with her husband . |
| 2 | Having campaigned from the moral high ground , the Nigerian Government is acutely embarrassed to be caught throwing stones from a glass house . |
| 3 | The management is extremely sorry to be leaving Mildenhall and in particular to be losing some of our team . |
| 4 | In another Kontron application , a modal-analysis grid created by IBAS programming is superimposed on an optical image of biotite granite above right ( field of view 4 × 4 millimetres ) to allow a preconfigured grey-level classification below right to be overridden by the user where necessary , thereby combining the advantages of expert interpretation with the speed of the computer . |
| 5 | Some fat women are so grateful to be desired that they will take whatever sex is offered ; others have very specific criteria for lovers , and even less choice . |
| 6 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems so awful to be standing there , hour after hour , doing the same thing , day after day . ’ |
| 8 | After the March 1991 releases , over 70 detainees were still held and were apparently due to be brought to trial in April . |
| 9 | Supporting evidence for the non-cooperation of p53 and K-ras in colorectal tumourigenesis comes from our own finding and that of others that the frequency with which p53 and K-ras mutants are found together in large bowel cancers is only that to be expected by chance . |
| 10 | In a series of 100 colorectal cancers analysed for K-ras mutation and p53 over expression , the proportion of tumours showing both abnormalities was only that to be expected by chance . |
| 11 | The contractor is often in a difficult position , when payments to the nominated sub-contractor are only due to be made immediately prior to the next valuation , and insufficient time remains for receipts to be obtained . |
| 12 | If the garden is small it will be a case of growing the monkey puzzle in the swimming pool , so many demands will be made on it , but most herbs are sufficiently ornamental to be fitted into the aesthetic need that a garden fulfils . |
| 13 | For the courts to have regard to Parliamentary material might necessitate changes in Parliamentary procedures to ensure that ministerial statements are sufficiently detailed to be taken into account . |
| 14 | Dr Pertwee says there is no longer a stigma attached to cannabis research in the scientific world , although pharmaceutical companies have been less willing to be seen to be working with cannabis-like substances . |
| 15 | Clearly , even in situations where the distribution of future cash flows is known to the auditors , then a going concern qualification 's ‘ accuracy ’ as a predictor of failure will depend on the nature of this distribution and the point at which the auditors decide that the possibility of failure is sufficiently high to be signalled to investors . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you any equipment that is sufficiently light to be taken in a cab ? ’ |
| 17 | certainly the case for for the sort of the landless and the , the very poor peasant and I think this is why the , the medium and the wealthy peasants are less interested to be involved , they have got things to lose . |
| 18 | Once both do , neither may be so willing to be bullied . |
| 19 | The reputations of others who may not have been so willing to be identified are sacrificed in the quest for titillation . |
| 20 | There are now so few to be fished for in most rivers that more and more people who spent a lot of money in Scotland , as I have over the years , are going to Russia , Iceland , Alaska , Canada and Norway . |
| 21 | We believe it is morally wrong to be taking away residential accommodation , when there are so many people homeless in our society , and we should do something about it . |
| 22 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 23 | For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League . |
| 24 | There was still so much to be seen . |
| 25 | But there is still so much to be done . |
| 26 | There 's still so much to be done |
| 27 | Who wants a society that reduces men to predatory thugs , when there is so much to be done ? |
| 28 | There was so much to be done . |
| 29 | But although there was so much to be done , the indefatigable Breeze found time to collect holly and evergreens from the lanes inland , and made all sorts of decorations out of odd scraps of coloured paper . |
| 30 | So much to be done ! |