Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |
| 2 | It would have been interesting to have had such contemporary problems , deriving from the college 's success , treated in the same detail as the early problems , when it was still seeking the way ahead . |
| 3 | This leaflet has been prepared to help explain this new scheme and how it might affect you . |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ I have been careful to avoid modelling any of the characters on individual members of our Royal family . |
| 5 | Few MPs are willing to risk antagonizing those upon whose electoral favour they depend , especially where there are no immediately apparent benefits to be earned by the espousal of penal policies in the way that policy changes in health , housing , social security , education and the environment can be of direct benefit to their constituents . |
| 6 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 7 | I am fortunate to have had enough support to recover from the hell of being abused . |
| 8 | ‘ We are delighted to have created this prestigious exhibition which has been well received and enjoyed by so many visitors . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We are delighted to have achieved this within a year . |
| 10 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director comments : ‘ We are delighted to have received this prestigious retail award . |
| 11 | Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director , comments ‘ We are delighted to have received these three awards . ’ |
| 12 | We are delighted to have found this beautiful establishment which is not really a hotel , in the conventional sense , rather a whole village turned into a hotel — with the exception of one or two buildings which house the wine production . |
| 13 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 14 | I said , but if you 're willing to sacrifice to keep all them lot happy I said and you 'd call most |
| 15 | A junior hacksaw : You 're likely to have to tackle some small metal-cutting jobs from time to time . |
| 16 | They 're all gone get some more . |
| 17 | Many paddling pools can also be used as sandpits , but once you 've filled your pool with sand , you 're unlikely to want to take all out again to make it into a paddling pool for the afternoon . |
| 18 | It can be confusing when you 're first trying to identify this plant because some books insist that the flowers have five petals , whereas in fact they can have four . |
| 19 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 20 | In the country , blackbirds and mistle thrushes are likely to have stripped most of the glistening haws by the end of November . |
| 21 | Each patient 's fasting plasma glucose and insulin measurements can be interpreted by the model to predict the β cell function and insulin sensitivity that are likely to have given those measurements . |
| 22 | Slated urban roofs are likely to have reached this state after about eighty years . |
| 23 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 24 | But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall . |
| 25 | Recent changes in the social security system are likely to have intensified these widening income inequalities among families with children . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Oxford diocese said : ’ We are very sad that people who are grieving have experienced this kind of rejection and we are very sad that it happened . |
| 27 | Sir Frank Cooper argues that , despite intelligence reports of something amiss in the South Atlantic , it would have been inappropriate to have stopped these shipments . |
| 28 | Poulter argues that it would have been inappropriate to have given all the principal religious traditions represented in Great Britain equal weight in the RE syllabus , since it would leave Christianity being reflected in just one-sixth of the course . |
| 29 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 30 | ‘ Master Corbett , you 've told me how I am supposed to have killed this woman , but not the reason why . ’ |