Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " So — am I not to be married after all ? " |
| 2 | Are we about to be taken over by the machine ? |
| 3 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 4 | There were plenty more to be had cheaper ! |
| 5 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 6 | I am sorry , but there 's nothing else to be done . |
| 7 | They will be so contaminated with the virus that there is nothing else to be done . |
| 8 | The specificity of literature , as Bukharin resolutely argued at the 1934 Congress , must be retained if the ideological effect of literature is itself not to be rendered impotent . |
| 9 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 10 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 11 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 12 | ‘ The night-scene when they were landing the herring is one never to be forgotten , especially in the early times . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's something yet to be proven . ’ |
| 14 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
| 15 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 16 | There was nothing else to be done . |
| 17 | With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done . |
| 18 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 19 | After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then . |
| 20 | " There was nothing else to be learned from Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 21 | There was nothing decently to be done and so with disproportionate reluctance Flavia took Andrée to the tower . |
| 22 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 23 | Was he not to be trusted ? |
| 24 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |