Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tight to the elbows then flared out , falling nearly to her knees , allowing the embroidery inside to be seen . |
| 2 | Soon PostScript ( and one of its rivals , called TrueType , which is the brain-child of Apple and Microsoft , two suppliers to the personal-computer market ) will be added to the nuts and bolts of computers so that their screens accurately display the page about to be printed . |
| 3 | Given the opportunity not to be continually wrapped in a nappy a 1-year-old child will show a lot of interest in urination and indicate what has happened . |
| 4 | I expected the Polynesians there to be just as subject to the ailments of the flesh as anywhere else in the world — especially polio — otherwise what would they need a doctor for ? |
| 5 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 6 | After he had rung off Lewis considered informing the police , he thought this might be his duty , but on the other hand he did not want the police actually to be there when Adam arrived . |
| 7 | The plain fact is that the feeble PC beep , usually allied to a tiny ( and tinny ) speaker is the laughing stock of the computer world — almost every other type of computer has sound capabilities that make the PC more to be pitied than laughed at . |
| 8 | Some might prefer the head not to be next to the cooker |
| 9 | James O'Reilly SC , for the society , said SPUC would prefer the students not to be jailed . |
| 10 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 11 | and in Athens itself boundary stones saying ‘ I am the boundary of the agora ’ demarcate the area not to be entered by the polluted . |
| 12 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 13 | He has the confidence simply to be himself . |
| 14 | The CAA SRG input to them will be that a passenger who has paid to be flown , as a passenger , has the right not to be exposed to a higher risk than any other passenger who has paid to be flown . |
| 15 | For , just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles , a right recognised by law in this country since 1916 , so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf . |
| 16 | testing at Tomduff found the situation there to be as good as or better than those with the existing producers of andalusite in South Africa . |
| 17 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 18 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 19 | Distinctly the minority view is that which allows laughter at both tales to be free of moral implications and which thus allows the tales genuinely to be fun — which would not , of course , imply that the two tales are vacuous exercises aimed at giving pleasure alone . |
| 20 | Rather , its purpose is to simplify the issues sufficiently to be able to put a coherent structure on the following discussions about some of the ways in which the various factors interrelate , and the possibility of intervention . |
| 21 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Bartley removed the passenger door lock , used its serial number to buy an ignition key from the garage 's parts department and drove the car away to be ringed . |
| 23 | I studied the wording closely to be sure the shop was exactly where I thought it was , folded up the paper and left the flat to check for myself . |
| 24 | The judge directed the jury not to be affected by what D said as against TJ . |
| 25 | Why could n't he have had the decency just to be straight with her ? |
| 26 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 27 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 28 | Obviously the idea of killing everything in sight is a little primitive and shows the storyline up to be a little on the shallow side , but hey , it 's light relief from the hectic world outside . |
| 29 | What areas When I say , What areas , I mean what mean c what erm would you like the money actually to be used on ? |
| 30 | Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure . |