Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 2 | property uneconomical to repair and had to be demolished . |
| 3 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 4 | Investigators in 1897 in Lyons , in 1908 in Vienna , repeatedly showed that various bacteria failed to grow or appeared to be destroyed in the vicinity of Penicillium moulds , but the practical application of this fact was elusive . |
| 5 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 6 | Specifically , the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 provided that an agreement by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute should not be a criminal conspiracy unless the act itself was punishable as a crime . |
| 7 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |
| 8 | It is fun to do and needs to be practised regularly . |
| 9 | The aircraft were ranged on the decks before dawn , but on ‘ Furious ’ the first Fulmar failed to start and had to be put below . |
| 10 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 11 | But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast . |
| 12 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 13 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 14 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 15 | Everything that can be done to stop that has to be done . |
| 16 | Conflicts , over such matters as land use , are likely to arise and need to be faced squarely . |
| 17 | The problem is that information and events worth bringing to parent 's attention do n't always occur at regular fixed intervals so the newsletters may frequently have nothing to say and need to be supplemented by successions of ‘ flyers ’ announcing special events . |
| 18 | You , as beneficial owner , assign to Oxford University Press the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in respect of the product by the law in any part of the world , authorise Oxford University Press to make or cause to be made any alterations , adaptations and additions to the product , and waive your rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 19 | Similarly , if saving exceeded investment , interest rates would fall , causing investment to rise and saving to be reduced . |