Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That UNTAC has been unable to make them do so is its only serious failure so far . |
| 32 | This company had purchased two new middle-water vessels , the Ben Loyal and Ben Roy but had been unable to make them pay and was obliged to sell them in May 1980 . |
| 33 | Skiing spring snow is utterly euphoric if you are able to let yourself go . |
| 34 | Sometimes destruction of self-confidence is given in one fatal dose , enough to kill all enterprise unless you are able to let it bounce off you . |
| 35 | ‘ If they were happy enough to let me through the door then they should have been happy to let me win their draw . |
| 36 | At no time have I been able to see anything cither Nazi or necessarily homosexual in the listed pleasures , which are precisely of the kind which might occur in a George MacDonald fantasy . |
| 37 | If they go away with a positive decision against starting up a tourism enterprise , Sue feels she has been able to help them avoid an expensive mistake . |
| 38 | And I have n't even been able to help you regain your notes . ’ |
| 39 | But you 've always been able to make me behave completely out of character . ’ |
| 40 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 41 | He says ’ I think that for everyone who is objecting to the festival locally there are a lot more who are happy to see it go on and see the space used properly and there are twenty five thousand people here from all over the country that are loving the three days . ’ |
| 42 | Victorine cried out as soon as she saw them : that wretched child , I knew it would be hopeless letting her help , it 's too much , I 'll never be done in time . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm sorry to see you go , both of you . |
| 44 | ‘ Maggie , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I 'm sorry to make you do this but you have to . |
| 45 | ‘ I 'm sorry to hear you say that , Vic . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'm sorry to hear you say so , ’ said Lady Usk sympathetically . |
| 47 | ‘ But it 'll be strange to see him go left out of the tunnel . |
| 48 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |
| 49 | Landlady Rita Smith said : ‘ We are going to be sorry to see him go . |
| 50 | Telethon '92 raised one and a quarter million pounds for charities across the Central region — recipients like Play for Children in Nottingham will be sorry to see it go . |
| 51 | You 'll be sorry to see it go |
| 52 | Matt said in a tone of genuine regret , ‘ I 'll be sorry to see you leave , but I suppose — eventually — you 'd become bored with this place . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ If Herr Gesner is unhappy , perhaps it would be simpler to let him leave . ’ |
| 54 | It was not that she was weakening , she told herself , it would just be simpler to let him move the bureau . |
| 55 | I did n't say his manipulation of the accounts were n't serious — they are — but I 'm prepared to let them go if Garry toes the line . ’ |
| 56 | But if he really loved her he would have to be prepared to let her go . |
| 57 | Your parents must be prepared to let you do anything , + watch anything on T.V. etc. , + you must go out all the time with your friends . |
| 58 | Dr. Favor said , " What if I 'm willing to let him drive ? " |
| 59 | I says , he 'll be bracksy Do you know what bracksy is ? |
| 60 | It would be wrong to make them pay the price of justice — although this might nudge us into remembering that innocent wives and children and other dependents are made to suffer when the state imprisons thousands of working-class men for crimes which are often insignificant compared with corporate crimes . |