Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oyston knew NoS was desperate for money , but Everett thought his decision to invest was quite impulsive . |
| 2 | ‘ Their decision to retire is selflessly motivated by the recognition that we are now entering a new and election-oriented phase in the political process , ’ Mr de Klerk said . |
| 3 | The decision to retire is never an easy one for architects . |
| 4 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 5 | The questions which give rise to debate are rarely those which later have to be decided by the courts . |
| 6 | The single most difficult skill for the calligrapher to acquire is consistently good letterform in a rhythmic , written hand . |
| 7 | The principle of intention to treat was not used in this analysis as the purpose was evaluation of the untreated condition and the effects of treatments rather than their feasibility . |
| 8 | Clearly Romania was well on its way to becoming an economic super-success and anyone with funds to spare was well advised to lend them to Ceauşescu . |
| 9 | The Central Authority 's ambition to standardise was also based on the role accorded to it by statute ‘ … to co-ordinate the distribution of electricity by Area Boards and to exercise a general control over the policy of those Boards ’ . |
| 10 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 11 | An intention to frighten is not by itself sufficient mens rea for s.20 : Sullivan , above . |
| 12 | In fact , it is all too easy to conclude that if one 's message is misunderstood , the receiver is at fault ; and if the other person 's attempt to communicate is not understood , then the other person 's mode of expression is deficient in some way . |
| 13 | One of the advantages of our business is that the opportunities to progress are remarkably many and varied — there is no one set path which you have to adhere to . |
| 14 | Accessibility and a readiness to listen are not , to be sure , incompatible with a fundamentally authoritarian structure of power and government . |
| 15 | A geometric lock which requires no force to lock is seriously out of adjustment . |
| 16 | But perhaps the most striking result to emerge is how little sexual behaviour is influenced by the risk either of unwanted pregnancy or the danger of contracting AIDS . |
| 17 | Your lack of concern about having no horse to ride is quite apparent . |
| 18 | Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand . |
| 19 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 20 | A similar majority ( 76 per cent ) , however , deemed the LEA guidelines to have been only reasonably adequate . |
| 21 | While the fulfilling of the obligations or the intention to repay is not per se not dishonest it is evidence that the accused was not dishonest under Ghosh . |
| 22 | Professionalism and a readiness to learn were now required . |
| 23 | There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review . |
| 24 | However , the latest allegation to arise is probably the best yet , eclipsing even the bribery/dodgy trucks/company liquidation tales . |
| 25 | In the first place it could be argued that the power of the professional association to act is severely limited , because much of the censorship that takes place in libraries is ultimately applied by Library Committees and local authorities whose members are beyond the control of the librarians ' professional body . |
| 26 | ( iv ) A submission of no case to answer was also made by the respondent in relation to count 2 . |
| 27 | A submission of no case to answer was also made in regard to count 2 . |
| 28 | BNFL is contesting the case , claiming the levels of radioactivity were harmless and that the decision to sell was purely financial . |
| 29 | Political intervention was advisable even when an applicant had the necessary financial strength to make a purchase , and if a gift of a commission was a greater compliment , permission to purchase was nonetheless gratefully accepted . |
| 30 | We have schemata for action , for example : we do not have to replan how to get dressed every day ; for many of us , the decision about what shoes to wear is quite enough of a problem for one morning . |