Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 2 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 3 | That being the case , we are right to ask what the Bill 's objectives really are . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
| 5 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 6 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 7 | You are right to remind us . |
| 8 | Both proponents and protesters are right to present their views and it is incumbent on politicians to ensure that adequate regulatory controls provide as large a degree of environmental protection as is possible when dealing with the relatively unknown . |
| 9 | Ministers are right to protect our national interest at every stage . |
| 10 | He said now , ‘ You are right to check me . |
| 11 | You are right to speak your thoughts . |
| 12 | wonderful do n't like those , do n't really wan na give you those there are right have I got it on bloody hell mum ! |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose we are right to send you and Jeremy out to get Tristram rather than leave him to take the full consequences ? ’ he said reflectively , as he loaded her and her possessions into his car and took the wheel . |
| 14 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 15 | Kim pulled T'ai Cho down , then scrambled back , feeling the convected warmth of the gun 's discharge in the air , accompanied by a sharp , sweet scent that might almost have been pleasant had it not signalled something so deadly . |
| 16 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 17 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 18 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |
| 19 | Moreover , their sons are loth to follow their fathers into farming . |
| 20 | Suddenly , I am right to play anything . |
| 21 | Tell yourself , ‘ The very fact that I am alive gives me the right to a new beginning . ’ |
| 22 | Generations of the same familyes have worked at Cowley , in recent years the numbers employed have declined , two of the works are due to close he says , The opening of Act 2 is a song which dela swith the lethargy that is seeping in and coming to terms with being out of work . |
| 23 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 24 | Derek Dooley and his family are due to leave their private rented house in Louisa Street in June . |
| 25 | Armed police were called to Markham Main , near Doncaster , South Yorkshire , where 730 men are due to lose their jobs . |
| 26 | Morrison and Farrelly should clinch the titles at the Mourne Club event at Dundrum , where three English Honda riders , Lindley Francis , Clive Morgan and Wayne Faulkner are due to make their Irish debut . |
| 27 | They are due to play their 1,000th performance in mid-April . |
| 28 | Bilateral talks are being planned for tomorrow between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers , who are due to meet their Belarussian and Kazakh counterparts to discuss ratification of the US-Soviet Start agreement on cutting strategic nuclear missiles . |
| 29 | In April 17th Iraqi diplomats are due to meet their Iranian counterparts in Geneva for a new round of peace talks . |
| 30 | This month , events are due to prove you right . |