Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 2 | GIS research into site selection for non-nuclear hazardous waste has been almost exclusively conducted in North America and has yet to be matched in the UK . |
| 3 | This type of situation may exist in other cases of language interaction , but it is not universal : in any event , the model seems " leaky " and has yet to be demonstrated to be valid in any bilingual community where code switching occurs . |
| 4 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 5 | After six years , the Mulla report is still ‘ under consideration ’ by the state governments , and has yet to be laid before Parliament . |
| 6 | Many passsages in the Jewish scriptures refer to the way in which religious observance itself can become an enormous obstacle and has constantly to be overcome . |
| 7 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 8 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 9 | Over the next five days , events behind the scenes moved at breakneck speed , although with Admiral Thomson keeping the lid screwed down tight on the newspapers , radio and newsreels , the British public had little to feed on except rumours , and snippets not to be trusted but disturbingly suggestive — gleaned from German broadcasts . |
| 10 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 11 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 12 | This lesson appears to have been accepted in principle ( Department of Trade and Industry , 1988 , 1989 ) but has yet to be implemented . |
| 13 | Members of the US Congress and environmentalists are concerned that the agreement , which has been signed but has yet to be ratified , will encourage US companies to transfer operations across the border to Mexico to take advantage of lax enforcement of labour and environmental standards . |
| 14 | The third woman of world class is Marie Laure de Lorenzi , who wins everything in Europe but has yet to be persuaded that America is worth a detour . |
| 15 | This process is not only one that occurs in everyday life , but has also to be carried out by scientists in the laboratory , or by coroners in coroners ' courts ( Atkinson 1978 ) . |
| 16 | He proposes to become a capitalist and a ship-insurer , but seems not to be meeting with much success . |