Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leaflet has been prepared to help explain this new scheme and how it might affect you . |
| 2 | If you are interested do let us know so we can keep you up to date with developments . |
| 3 | Come on we 're supposed to do work you know , we 're talking about these |
| 4 | But possessions stick like leeches : you 're scared to let go , but they weigh you down . |
| 5 | Although these are likely to help prevent suicide , the risk of such a patient killing himself usually remains high . |
| 6 | Claire , Annabel and I are supposed to help distribute the food , and let me tell you , at some of these do 's it 's like feeding a pack of hounds . |
| 7 | Manners are supposed to help carry things off . |
| 8 | They interrupt because they are unwilling to let pass a remark from which an intricate leap can be performed . |
| 9 | The example auditors ' reports given in the exposure draft are unlikely to help narrow the expectations gap because they do not include references to the inherent limitations of financial reporting and , in particular , to the need to recognise that the balance sheet is not intended to be a statement of a company 's net worth and that there can not be a guarantee that the company will survive as a going concern . |
| 10 | Self-directed learning takes a great deal of planning by the teaching team , and teachers are reluctant to let go of the responsibility of being the main teaching resource . |
| 11 | The seasons are reluctant to let go in the North of England and , although it was early May , Nora wore her winter coat . |
| 12 | As evidence has shown , wealthy candidates receive a head-start in pre-nomination campaigns and in marginal congressional seats as they are able to help finance their own campaigns . |
| 13 | And it adds : ‘ Richard Oster , of the Cookson engineering group , may have been happy to make do on £628,611 , a rise of only four per cent , as his company recorded a fall in profits of 65 per cent . ’ |
| 14 | Oldham had another ‘ keeper , a local lad whom , the wily manager knew , the club really would be sorry to let go . |
| 15 | But I just could n't believe that people would be willing to do do that kind of thing , you know . |
| 16 | Margaret Charlwood will be taking a workshop session showing the Medau approach and would like to hear from anyone wishing to attend — especially those with cars who would be willing to help transport some disabled class members . |
| 17 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 18 | And people who set out to be faithful do fall passionately in lust with other people . |
| 19 | When the Syrians said , ‘ We do n't know where the hostages are but we 'll be glad to help locate them , ’ all they had to do was pick up the phone . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought 14 years was a fair spell but I felt a bit sad and it will be hard to let go but I am preparing myself for that . |
| 21 | But them I 'm lucky to have have a job really . |
| 22 | There is therefore no national study which also looks at students in the traditional university sector , and further comparative studies would be useful to help strengthen the conclusions which can be drawn . |
| 23 | For if a holder thinks that the buyers will really be able to get at 36s. all that they care to take at that price , he will be unwilling to let slip past him any offer that is well above that price . |
| 24 | It 'll be good to help get the harvest in — sweaty hard work — satisfying . ’ |
| 25 | He said he puts more , more he calls in and says it 's awful really cos this rubbish and he said whereas I should be able to do say the whatever ten o'clock post in whatsit . |
| 26 | He told her that she would not be able to let go of him , that his power was deep , deep in her bones and she was bound to him for ever . |
| 27 | It is part of the art of mothering to be able to let go , when the time comes ; we have all met sturdy adults who are ‘ tied to mother 's apron strings ’ , often in many subtle , insidious little ways . |
| 28 | I hope people will be able to let go a bit and stop analysing . |
| 29 | I said that 's done with you a bloody lot I said , a hundred and twenty pound a week that should be able to make do with a hundred and twenty pound a week easily |
| 30 | Tritium is an essential fuel in thermonuclear weapons ; it is also a product of dd fusion — the very process that the Utah chemists claimed to be able to make happen inexpensively in a test tube . |