Example sentences of "[adv] to be [verb] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 2 | For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’ |
| 3 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 4 | Their association was no longer to be kept secret and , anyway , Laura denied that he had come . |
| 5 | Our colleagues thus are now to be found participating and observing in villages and urban enclaves in Britain and America as well as on the ski-slopes of Europe , and are also making forays into factories , prisons and hospitals to see whether they can produce more interesting and unexpected findings than those already provided by other techniques of research . |
| 6 | The dredge ( mainly oats ) grows well to be cut green and made like hay in August . |
| 7 | He had a calm lean face never to be called handsome and if he looked up he would put on his quick protective smile to say Do n't ask about me I 'm all right talk about somebody else … |