Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CURRIE are embarking on a three-year campaign to raise the profile of their sevens tournament which again is to be sponsored by the Caledonian Brewing Company . |
| 2 | In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types . |
| 3 | Once height at school entry has been measured nothing further is to be gained from such a delay . |
| 4 | She had five managers in mind , who mostly were to be found in the same quarter of London . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 6 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 7 | Marxists invoke ‘ History ’ as a ‘ transcendent signified ’ , the ultimate in terms of which everything else is to be explained ; but there are many histories , not one , and we choose those which suit us . |
| 8 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 9 | To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure . |
| 10 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 11 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 12 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 13 | Ultimately , it too was to be opposed , on the same grounds . |
| 14 | Determining what precisely is to be bought is also negotiable . |
| 15 | Whether this attainment takes two years to acquire depends on what else is to be covered in Science , not its own intrinsic difficulty or depth . |
| 16 | The third statement is a dependent nomic conditional , while the first , whatever else is to be said of it , is not . |
| 17 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |