Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 2 | Clelia did not pretend not to be delighted by Clara 's delight . |
| 3 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 4 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 5 | Petitions did not begin simply to be pressed on parliament in large numbers on a few issues ; the range of grievances expanded in petitioning . |
| 6 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 7 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 8 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 9 | Too often retired people will say that retirement did not turn out to be as they had expected . |
| 10 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 11 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 12 | People who did not know how to be useful dropped out of Good Neighbour schemes . |
| 13 | It was a generation that had to be brave and now did not know how to be peaceful . |
| 14 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 15 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 16 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 17 | We must try to ensure that , as a result of our own genetic manipulation , they do not turn out to be unpleasant surprises . |
| 18 | Men are not so resourceful , they do not know how to be friends and companions to themselves . ’ |
| 19 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 20 | I did n't set out to be a sculptor but discovered at college it was much more of a natural thing for me . |
| 21 | You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! |
| 22 | Yasmin says that she did n't start out to be a model . |
| 23 | They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably . |
| 24 | She did n't know how to be light . |
| 25 | ‘ That did n't turn out to be much fun . ’ |
| 26 | Being back in the basement did n't turn out to be any good after all . |
| 27 | Erm which did n't turn out to be the case . |
| 28 | For a long time they thought it might have been dysentery , but thank goodness it did n't turn out to be that serious . |
| 29 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 30 | Edward said , turning his august profile with a politeness that Emily did n't believe necessarily to be lasting . |