Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 2 | They are right to say that . |
| 3 | In other pre-modern cultures , however , it has not been usual to give all this information . |
| 4 | Well I must stop now as the V.C.s are due to arrive any minute . |
| 5 | The mail system is also used to inform users when they are due to perform some administrative tasks , such as assessing proposed changes or endorsing SSRs . |
| 6 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 7 | Very high storage rates are possible using this type of technology . |
| 8 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 9 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 10 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 11 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 12 | As a result , Ter-Petrosyan announced on Aug. 9 that the Soviet authorities had agreed to extend the deadline for militias to surrender ( it had been due to expire that day ) , and that the Armenian authorities should handle disarming the militias without interference by Soviet forces ( reportedly at Bakatin 's request , Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 11 from his holiday retreat in the Crimea extending the deadline for two months ) . |
| 13 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 14 | It had already been possible to offset some of the costs of industrial building , but this incentive was now extended to commercial projects in the zones . |
| 15 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 16 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 17 | As far as the capital receipt money goes , not all , it 's not been possible to spend all of that this year because the development of some of these urban traffic calming schemes is actually very complicated and we 've had to re-think some of them . |
| 18 | It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 20 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 21 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 22 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 23 | ‘ It might have been possible to prevent this . ’ |
| 24 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 25 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 26 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 27 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 28 | It 's nice to get back to Bishop 's Castle Railway tickets , but I am sorry to say these are the last you will see as I have no more suitable for reproduction in the Journal . |
| 29 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 30 | I am sorry to say this , but my fear is that the reality is that there would be a substantial minority with weighty voting powers which would look to their appointing authority for a lead . |