Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 2 | The Government are right not to rule out progress towards that , and to point out that a high degree of convergence of economies will be necessary before any single currency can be contemplated , agreed by this House , or sustained thereafter . |
| 3 | I began to have doubts as to whether I had been right not to tell you what was going on . |
| 4 | She knew she 'd been right not to trust him , guessed she had lost his support and did the only thing possible — tore at the bread with her teeth , one bite , two … three — stuffing her mouth till the bread protruded and she could hardly chew . |
| 5 | She had been right not to trust him . |
| 6 | She had been right not to trust him , for he seduced with soft words , with heat and passion and false promises of safety . |
| 7 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 8 | The problem has been rather how to satisfy an ever-increasing demand . |
| 9 | If I am right then to say ‘ The chicken is distressed by its close confinement , is a dual acknowledgement of sympathy at the presence of behavioural prototypes similar to those of distressed people , and a strong veterinary hint of a possible cure ; but no more . |
| 10 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 11 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 12 | They are all right to travel through . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been enough simply to hear his stories . |
| 14 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 15 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Welcome , we are so please to see you . ’ |
| 17 | Britain 's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance . |
| 18 | ‘ The figures are only here to prove one thing . |
| 19 | The star systems , right or wrong , are only there to provide the right atmosphere ; to set the mood ; to spark off communion with the spirit or energy force . |
| 20 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 21 | Cash-and-carry outlets usually deal in groceries , and many are open only to trade customers . |
| 22 | Q I am just about to leave school and would be interested to know about any available equestrian courses I can take . |
| 23 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |
| 24 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 25 | I am just about to tell you Q A P U quan quango , it 's a Q U A N G O semi public body with financial support from and senior appointments made by government . |
| 26 | It feels as though I am just about to end , just about to end . |
| 27 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 28 | And plans are already underway to build a purporse built campus before the end of the decade . |
| 29 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 30 | If you are just about to move house it might be preferable to have your pet cremated and bury the ashes in your new garden . |