Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 2 | Yeah only needs to be done white does n't it ? |
| 3 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 4 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 5 | It still has to be used full screen , or at least with a fixed window size . |
| 6 | A first criterion might be that the treatment at least has to be considered acceptable to the majority of the local culture . |