Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats will be depressed to see that only 40pc of Alliance voters in 1987 are now ready to vote for Peter Bergg . |
| 2 | It should be possible to dope or magnetically insulate the fibre itself , producing an effective periodic variation in field , without any mechanical changes to the conductor itself . |
| 3 | It may be possible to reduce or even eliminate this effect by ’ filtering ’ the definitions in the manner described earlier , but the pattern is extremely persistent ( almost every word investigated exhibited a descent into generality ) and it is unlikely that the filtering process could substantially alter this trend . |
| 4 | Yeah , but I mean , be honest , you , you say that , but people have got to be prepared to adjust as well . |
| 5 | The three US service manuals are currently in process of being updated , and it will be interesting to see whether either they , or the new UK tri-service manual which is now in an advanced state of preparation , say anything more specific about possible limits of one kind or another to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | It would be wrong to assume that only those who were privileged with the franchise were concerned with the outcome of electoral contests , since those without the right to vote were often able to make their feelings known through demonstrations or riots , which became increasingly common features of electoral contests at this time . |
| 7 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |
| 8 | However enjoyable it was , it would be dangerous to assume that yesterday 's party can continue . |
| 9 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 10 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 11 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 12 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 13 | They are designed to be quick to prepare and even quicker to eat and as a result are highly desirable to anyone who has a busy lifestyle . |
| 14 | Because most people 's range of social experience has become quite limited by the time they have attained adulthood , such observations are nearly always selective and may be hard to interpret or simply misleading . |
| 15 | It would be churlish to suggest that either RWC or the Italian Federation fell down in some areas because of a lack of will to make the event succeed . |
| 16 | The new CD-ROM format will be faster to access and easier to manipulate . |
| 17 | I am extremely pleased to be able to say that shortly , Lord Mayor , we will be able to consider the future of the T T C under a Labour Government and under a Labour controlled Council , and I ca n't wait . |
| 18 | " I think I shall be able to go as well as the others now . |
| 19 | At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end . |
| 20 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 22 | Their language is a restricted code , so they will not be able to formulate and hence will not be able to understand many of the things which middle-class children can formulate and understand . |
| 23 | so I think we 're inerent , inherently , er , unlikely to be able to predict that very well , but certainly if we can get the jurisdictional outs , and the clear no injustices and those to Sarah , then I think we should do that across the four teams , what we 've got at the moment is quite distorting as well , in other ways , look at my |
| 24 | Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’ |
| 25 | When applied to child abuse , then , it is assumed that if we can identify the characteristics associated with actual or potential abuse we will be able to identify and hence predict and prevent the problem . |
| 26 | Finally , the user will be able to select whether all SSRs that reference a module in the structure appears in the report , regardless of version number , or only those SSRs which apply to the version number selected in the structure . |
| 27 | And so the er , the reward for our firm grip on costs and the concentration on cash is a favourable swing of , of forty seven er , million pounds in the full year and there should be more to come because now we 're at the end of our er , capital spend on newspapers er , the newspapers will of course , become very substantial cash generators . |
| 28 | You will also be happy to learn that more exciting things than sherry happen in schooners . |
| 29 | Unless norms are shared , members of society would be unable to cooperate or even comprehend the behaviour of others . |
| 30 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |