Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , were every indication to be that there was no chance of the letter ever being posted — for example if the person was a known thief and there was no post-box within a hundred miles — then in this case giving him or her the letter would be regarded as stupid . |
| 2 | I take the true rule to be that where a specific article is offered for sale , without express warranty , or without circumstances from which the law will imply a warranty … and the buyer has full opportunity of inspecting and forming his own judgment , the rule caveat emptor applies . |
| 3 | When I was a little lad I always thought that the dilemma to be or not to be had something to do with choosing pencils ( surely 2B or not 2B ? ! ) |
| 4 | So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix . |
| 5 | I take the law to be that someone mentally unfit may not necessarily be incapable of reaching a rational decision as regards further treatment . |
| 6 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 7 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 8 | A career in outrage is a fine place to be but some jokes just are n't funny any more . ’ |
| 9 | There is no other place to be but the stream . |
| 10 | Set in the lively end of town , and new for Summer '90 , the attractive Magamar apartments are the place to be if you want to see as much motion as lotion ! |
| 11 | With the continued proliferation of the private car , the consequent development of road building schemes , and the increased expectation of mobility among the public at large , the roadside is the place to be if you are in the restaurant business . |
| 12 | Lei Leicester 's the place to be if you 're a scientist in it ? , bloody hell |
| 13 | First day of three : Durham are 119–0 in their first innings against Oxford University BROWNING was probably right in suggesting that England is the place to be when April comes — but not as far as cricketers are concerned . |
| 14 | Not that this should put off the more cautious or less experienced , because although the Mournes are no place to be when the mist is thick and low , the famous Mourne Wall is never far away and provides an excellent point of reference . |
| 15 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 16 | I decided it was n't a good place to be and left straightaway . |
| 17 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
| 18 | Brentford had a player sent off but no excuse for the second goal … the fans are angry … they 've every right to be when you see a team give away goals like this … |
| 19 | The right to be as fucked up as men . |
| 20 | What Donaldson is drawing attention to is that the experimental context involves a complicated and subtle set of interactions between what is presented , said , and done by the adult . |
| 21 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 22 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 23 | I realise now that this is how I wanted things to be when I was a small girl and came home from school . |
| 24 | Nisodemus wants things to be as they were . |
| 25 | Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me . |
| 26 | The relative narrowness of focus of particular modules , and the way this corresponds with the need for cross-reference to make explicit the common denominator of principle , are matters which can not be determined in advance but depend on what teachers conceive their problems to be and on the actual experience of designing and using such modules . |
| 27 | The mental element or mens rea for this offence is explained in Section 6(4) of the 1986 Act , viz : A person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends his words or behaviour , or the writing , sign or other visible representation , to be threatening , abusive or insulting , or is aware that it may be threatening , abusive or insulting or ( as the case may be ) he intends his behaviour to be or is aware that it may be disorderly . |
| 28 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends his words or behaviour , or the writing , sign or other visible representation , to be threatening , abusive or insulting , or is aware that it may be threatening , abusive or insulting or ( as the case may be ) he intends his behaviour to be or is aware that it may be disorderly . ’ |
| 29 | Ashton described the innocence , piety and wonder of the Bride at the event to be when he created the exquisitely detailed hand movements in The Wise Virgins , as he did for La Péri and Madame Chrysanthème . |
| 30 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |