Example sentences of "[verb] to be [verb] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 90° corners where resistance needs to be kept low or to reduce noise . |
| 2 | In fact , it was not until the late nineteenth century that body odour came to be considered unpleasant or anti-social . |
| 3 | Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent . |
| 4 | He evidently considered that all pottery of that period was intended to be reduced black or grey , and thought that black burnished were actually coated with bitumen . |
| 5 | Frequently the tower had to be left unfinished or left on the drawing-board , awaiting more funds . |
| 6 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 7 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |