Example sentences of "and [pron] [am/are] [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’
2 The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing .
3 Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat .
4 So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system .
5 And they are there to be worked to until such time as we find a better way of doing it .
6 Certainly , he does not lack for critics ; and they are mainly to be found on the left of the political spectrum , amongst those who subscribe to Socialism in one or other of its varying forms .
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