Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be taught to recognise that the attitudes and behaviour of a character or narrator are not necessarily to be identified with the attitudes or beliefs of the author . |
| 2 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 3 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 4 | Petty was not considered active or dangerous enough to be arrested with the other Leveller leaders in late March 1649 , although he was later named as a leader of those who remained at large . |
| 5 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 6 | It also permits us to understand why only to is used with a verb such as discern : ( 49 ) We discerned it to be a man . |
| 7 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 8 | Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 10 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 11 | Better than this modern rubbish , ’ only to be confronted with a leather clad Sandie , writhing about the Top Of The Pops floor with an equally leather clad Smiths behind her engaged in a bitter battle over individual volume . |
| 12 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 13 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 14 | And on Saturday , he contacted the UN only to be greeted with an answering machine . |
| 15 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 16 | Nevertheless chronicles , with their short annalistic entries , are scarcely to be compared with a work of history on the scale of Gregory 's Ten Books . |
| 17 | And they went over just to be fitted with the |
| 18 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 19 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 20 | Not to be ranked with the world 's great love letters , but probably the most Sarah had ever had . |
| 21 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 22 | ‘ Not to be compared with the tycoon , eh ? ’ eh asked nastily . |
| 23 | a In Gardynik , it was held , dismissing an appeal by the defendant , that sexual assault was not to be equated with the former offence of indecent assault , with its highly subjective moral overtones . |
| 24 | The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance . |
| 25 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 26 | Dependent conditionals , secondly , are not to be identified with the " material conditionals " of truth-functional logic , which rarely if ever turn up in ordinary language . |
| 27 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 28 | Another essential item to take with you is a battery charger ; if you are really keen not to be caught with a flat battery , take a spare rechargeable battery , too . |
| 29 | Surely that threatens the environment , and surely the Government 's proposals for removing the power of the House to make the final decision on railways means that the Government are not to be trusted with the environment . |
| 30 | The actual ring fencing arrangements have still to be discussed with the Trade Unions . |