Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work depicts Mazeppa about to be crushed by his stumbling horse and is estimated to make £200–300,000 ( $360–540,000 ) . |
| 2 | But feminists who are alerted to the importance of symbolism believe Christianity accordingly to be judged . |
| 3 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 4 | The neat cap of imminence around her head changed from its suppression to three positive lines of hyacinth signifying actions about to be taken . |
| 5 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 6 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 7 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |