Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | But am I strong enough to watch him trying to fly over things and skim around things and fritter energy and search ? |
2 | Is it sometimes better to avoid the word ‘ deaf ’ ? |
3 | After a brief apology she said : ‘ Is it all right to allow credit for this , Miss Carne ? ’ |
4 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle , is it all right to carry on thinking about ordinary gravity force instead of wonky space — if you want to ? ’ |
5 | Is it all right to eat or drink before a session ? |
6 | ‘ But is it all right to eat Grandson Richard 's sandwich ? ’ |
7 | ‘ Is it all right to walk on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’ |
8 | While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way . |
9 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
10 | Is he good enough to play for us ? |
11 | And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin ? |
12 | Was it deep enough to sweep the vehicle over the edge ? |
13 | Was it too soon to wear Faith 's amethyst brooch ? |