Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this cautious , adroit , enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required . |
| 2 | A preoccupation , though a slowly waning one , with precedence and ceremonial still bulked very large : the safeguarding by the ambassador of the honour and standing of the monarch he represented continued for long to be widely seen as the most fundamental of all his duties . |
| 3 | Then Mervyn McKeeman put captain Ronnie Smith through only to be denied by visiting sweeper Chris Mulholland . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock arrived at the Pontllanfraith leisure centre shortly after 1.15am to be greeted by his agent , Mrs Doreen Moore , with a hug and a kiss . |
| 5 | Why should they sell bottles of NOT TO BE TAKEN ? |
| 6 | So , for , sort of still to be recorded |
| 7 | I , I 've got these letters out of here to be honest . |
| 8 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 9 | In the early 1980s , when a Berkshire county councillor , Norris would arrive in his Rolls-Royce at the Shire Hall , Reading , brandishing a copy of How to be a Minister ( written , incidentally , by Gerald Kaufman ) . |
| 10 | In the early 1980s , when a Berkshire county councillor , Norris would arrive in his Rolls-Royce at the Shire Hall , Reading , brandishing a copy of How to be a Minister ( written , incidentally , by Gerald Kaufman ) . |
| 11 | But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher . |
| 12 | The level of ambiguity which inevitably constrained Cipriani , was also to prove to be his Achilles ' heel , for , how could he possibly fulfil the nationalist aspirations of the people before he resolved the problem of how to be a patriotic West Indian , and loyal to the Empire at the same time ? |
| 13 | That 's right , yes I mean , the goalkeeper was fantastic first half , and really we only had one chance second half , and he made a great save from Fossey. erm First half , it was a case of just throwing himself into the right area and the ball was hitting his body and you know , he was just a good example of how to be a good goalkeeper . |
| 14 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't have to stay in the middle of nowhere to be out of danger , ’ she retorted . |
| 16 | Whitaker also publishes the most comprehensive listing of yet to be published books in its weekly microfiche service , New and Forthcoming Books . |
| 17 | This entailed that the three subjects were for ever to be treated as three separate subjects . |
| 18 | Is the Church to continue for ever to be under-remunerated because just sufficient hear the call ? |
| 19 | ‘ He teaches us funny things like how to be frightened and stand in corners or how to walk around without your hands in your pockets . ’ |
| 20 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | I was too preoccupied with what I felt : about the baby , about Graham , about now to be able to visualize the future . |
| 22 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 23 | There are not enormous amounts of hazardous waste either arising here or coming here from elsewhere to be disposed of in an uncontrolled manner . |
| 24 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 25 | ‘ I had n't expected all the containers in here to be emptied out , too ! ’ |
| 26 | Er yeah and if you were a , if you were a rightist cadre that had doubts about all this and actually wanted to go the slow more moderate line , you could also find enough in here to be able to , to sort of curtail things a bit ? |
| 27 | They felt very threatened , although ‘ opening the door of my house ’ had been one of the actions tried out when the class was directing me in how to be a witch . |
| 28 | As the emigré Hungarian humorist , George Mikes , remarked ( in How to be an Alien ) , the English have no soul , they only have the understatement . |
| 29 | In medical education there is a potential conflict between the desire to provide a broad educational experience and the need to ensure a technical training in how to be a doctor . |
| 30 | Here are some ideas for following up the advice in How to be a ghost … |