Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test samples that are as table to light as are control samples in the test will almost certainly be stable to light under market conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ They thought it would be hypocritical to marry in church , but felt a register office wedding on its own would be a bit bleak . ’ |
| 3 | I would therefore be grateful to learn from Benoit Rudloff , who is buying these 1700 ploughs or , as I suspect , respectfully suggest to Mr Rudloff that maybe has had picked up some duff information over the past two years ! ! |
| 4 | Garbett said that he thought it would be right to go to London , for the sake of the Church ; that he longed for him to come to York , for the sake of himself , he wanted Ramsey as his successor . |
| 5 | " The Trustees of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , having taken into consideration an application by the Rev. C. G. Hamilton , MA , for a Testimonial as a Candidate for the Headmastership of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School , feel that while they should be sorry to part with services so valuable to their own school , they can not , in justice to him , refuse him the opportunity of improving his position , and they cordially wish him that success to which , both from ability and experience , he is so eminently entitled . " |
| 6 | It has to be possible to see within reality the presence of that which transcends it — what the Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘ the beyond in our midst ’ . |
| 7 | I take the squad to Holland every year and that is something I would like to see continued but I have other ideas which it may not be possible to put into practice . |
| 8 | It still appears to be possible to test for market efficiency , for equation ( 3.31 ) predicts that the coefficient of f t will be 1 . |
| 9 | If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause . |
| 10 | In explaining this situation , it might be possible to point to sources inherent to Japan — its culture , mentality , religion , or geography . |
| 11 | If untraceable shareholders are not a significant problem , it may be possible to dispense with advertisements . |
| 12 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 13 | For example , if the glider is too low to land conventionally in the normal landing area directly into the wind , it may well be possible to land across wind and behind the normal launching point , so that the low turn can be completed safely . |
| 14 | Would it be possible to speak to Oliver ? |
| 15 | ‘ Would it be possible to speak to Comrade Charsky ? ’ she said mockingly in Kropotkin 's husky , languid , somewhat condescending tones . |
| 16 | But in the preceding half-century it would be possible to speak in terms of an Angevin seaborne as well as land-based empire . |
| 17 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 18 | Initially the currencies would coexist , but according to a radio report of May 22 , it would in future only be possible to pay in food shops with rubels , since " their basic function is to protect the internal market " . |
| 19 | To assess the relative numbers of thesis citations to publication citations , it may be possible to extrapolate from Haner 's study of government information contained in seven core journals in American geology . |
| 20 | Magazine seems to be upside down but this could be due to position of neck in gutter . |
| 21 | He sometimes thought it would be pleasant to lie in bed with his wife on Sunday mornings , now that there were no children to interrupt them , but Donna reckoned they should be through with all that kind of stupidity , so he was resigned to the sporadic consolation of his Métis up north . |
| 22 | However , Clive 's manager was driven by ‘ Be strong ’ — he considered that it would be weak to ask for help . |
| 23 | From this it was concluded that , although the principles of identifying systemic information links by this method appeared sound and it could be achieved to a limited extent by using the facilities of a flat-file database , it would not be cost-effective to pursue without access to more sophisticated technology . |
| 24 | You can work with any size of mirror , from minute to enormous , and it can be free-standing to sit on top of a dressing table or hung on a wall , as shown in the photograph on the opposite page . |
| 25 | The health committee , representing all parties , rightly insists the DoH be prepared to respond to shortfalls in funding , widely believed to be a £135 million deficit , and should have contingency funding available to respond to any crises . |
| 26 | But both are things we must be prepared to do on occasion , and both are preferable to staying at home and watching a lot of odious rubbish on television . |
| 27 | We in the west should be prepared to act in concert to impose sanctions , and to patrol the coast and the skies while a full conference to determine the relationship between the former Yugoslav territories is convened . |
| 28 | A bargain this , but be prepared to SPEND in Ireland . |
| 29 | Some local authorities have unlettable , poor standard or high-rise property considered unsuitable for family households , which they may be prepared to let to students . |
| 30 | She would be prepared to go into schools and talk to young people about violence and the danger of carrying knives . |