Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 2 | He seldom had to meet a man twice to be certain of his ground with him . |
| 3 | Ernest Valko , who was appointed the chair of the court , declared on Feb. 12 that all the judges had accepted a recommendation not to be active politically . |
| 4 | It is a peculiarity of this disease that the disease itself creates a wish not to be cured or only to be cured if and when the patient decides to cure himself or herself , which may well be too late . |
| 5 | The Hebrew scriptures imposed a law not to be binding on Gentiles , yet ( for all its moral imperfections ) not to be set in sharp antithesis to the new and more excellent way of love embodied in Jesus ' life and teaching . |
| 6 | The man on the video took a rather different view , describing Honda 's decision to join the flow of Japanese car makers into Britain as an opportunity to conquer a Europe soon to be ‘ unchained and unfettered by regulations ’ . |
| 7 | You will , however , be doing them a service if you collect your specimens from a field about to be cut for hay , from a hedgerow bordering a field about to be sprayed or a site being cleared for building work . |
| 8 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 9 | But I believe we have a duty not to be so defeatist in this matter . |