Example sentences of "'s [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible to be sad about your babies becoming children , and yet accept the fact that you wo n't have any more . |
| 2 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 3 | It 's a continuing theme ; dance is fickle and chews up styles so quickly it 's possible to be last week 's thing when your work is still relevant : ‘ Electro was given a bad name by break-dancing , ’ reckons David . |
| 4 | Sibling rows can be beneficial because they show that it 's possible to be angry with someone you love , but there 's a vital difference between that sort of infighting and the division that favouritism can cause . |
| 5 | But the good news is , with the aid of these space age products , it 's possible to be prettier than ever before . |
| 6 | It 's awful to be last , is n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | One can tell from his present ability that he 's right to be sorry , he might have gone on to be a famous international . |
| 8 | She 's right to be upset . |
| 9 | M. You seem to think it 's right to be wrong . |
| 10 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 11 | Whether anyone 's willing to be receptive to a music that is not as seriously , purgatively ‘ innovative ’ as the post-punk noise that veers towards the Rough Trade arena , not quite as vulnerably half-original as the music of this year 's Gig Of The Century bill ( Ratio , Teardrop , Echo ) . |
| 12 | He 's afraid to be alone with her . |
| 13 | Honourable but brief mentions must also go to Annie Lennox and Sinead O'Connor , for their uncompromising attitudes , bravery , outspokenness , passionate commitment to their music and because they prove it 's OK to be strong and to be vulnerable . |
| 14 | You tell me that it 's wrong to be happy . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose it 's wrong to be glad someone 's dead . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 17 | It 's easy to be friendly to nice people . |
| 18 | ‘ Except that it 's easy to be indifferent to money when you 've never been short of it . ’ |
| 19 | It 's easy to be tidy , just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed . |
| 20 | Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's easy to be wise in retrospect and to throw stones at those who negotiated the lease in 1974 . |
| 22 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 23 | It 's easy to be aware that things need sorting out but to be too preoccupied with the routine of living to do anything about it . |
| 24 | It 's easy to be frank and to hell with convention when you 're our age . |
| 25 | It 's natural , because peace drives have come and gone , so it 's easy to be doubtful about the success of yet another one . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him . |
| 27 | I think any serious climber has got to admit that he 's lucky to be alive , not that he 's skilful to be alive . |
| 28 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 29 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 30 | It 's impossible to be sure what fate befell the mightiest Orc Warlord of all time , but whatever became of him his reputation and memory lives on . |