Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 2 | But staff say it would be hypocritical to welcome her to a place where foxes injured by hounds are nursed back to health . |
| 3 | It would of course be possible to give them to clarinets and bassoons ( let us hope that no one would wish to use an oboe for the top note of the chords — it would be terribly nasal and obtrusive here , on its bottom notes ) , but the low-placed clarinets would sound rather hollow and ‘ woody ’ for the rich effect we have in mind . |
| 4 | Where the value of the intangible asset is at an all-time low , it may be possible to sell it to an IOFC operation and realise a capital loss in the selling location . |
| 5 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 6 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 7 | It should be possible to convert it to other BASICs without too much difficulty . |
| 8 | If coin 's so short , it might be simpler to offer me to Owen just as I am , in exchange for Mortimer . |
| 9 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 10 | If your interception angle is over 30° , then be prepared to reduce it to 30° ( plus drift ) , when the QDMs indicate that you are 10° to 15° off track . |
| 11 | Keep receipts for things you buy abroad and be prepared to show them to customs . |
| 12 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 13 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 14 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 15 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 16 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 17 | The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc . |
| 18 | If it was agreeable with Ellie , he would be delighted to escort her to dinner and the opera on Saturday . |
| 19 | No special secrecy was attached to the cruiser — indeed , Khrushchev told the disconcerted Admiralty that he would be glad to sell it to them because cruisers had been out-dated by missiles . |
| 20 | If you decide to come here , be sure to look up the ACAUS chapter in your city and we will be glad to assist you to the extent we can . |
| 21 | At this rate we 'll be lucky to make it to Makassar before the next monsoon ! " |
| 22 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 23 | So it would probably be better to mention it to her , but say you 'll be discreet , not record anything that . |
| 24 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 25 | Then would it be better to send it to some central |
| 26 | I think it was Michel who said , ‘ It might be cheaper to connect it to a flight simulator ’ . |
| 27 | That 's why we knew it would be good to bring it to a close . ’ |
| 28 | It might be prudent to put it to the test . |
| 29 | She recommended that a meeting with Social Services would be helpful to alert them to the ‘ dynamics ’ of this family and to advise them that ‘ as professionals we were anxious that we had not managed to engage and intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
| 30 | What if she gets dirty , then you 'll not be able to take her to bed |