Example sentences of "[adv] to [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fundamental point because if they are merely to be ombudsmen then the emphasis of ensuring regulations have been adhered to and best advice proffered rests in the first instance heavily upon the customer , and it is up to the customer to complain . |
| 2 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 3 | The trees bearing Cox 's Orange Pippins are vigorous enough to be favourites for orchards in Britain and several other countries with a similar climate , and it has also been used as a parent in breeding a number of other varieties which share some of its desirable characteristics . |
| 4 | — Manjiku specially likes to eat women : juicy , dark women full of blood , the way we are when we get old enough to be mothers . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm talking about liking people , liking them enough to be friends . |
| 6 | My arms are n't big enough to be wings ; what can I use for wings ? |
| 7 | Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous . |
| 8 | They say the interim administration is failing because ‘ they are too poor , they are all school teachers , and they are not rich enough to be politicians ’ . |
| 9 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 11 | These verderers were no longer to be officers of the Crown administering the forest law on its behalf . |
| 12 | What we cut away to are miners ' retaliatory attempts to help their colleagues . |
| 13 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 14 | Wilson redoubled his efforts to appeal to erring members " not to be traitors " . |
| 15 | We brought messages to save the peace , not to be traitoresses . |
| 16 | Appalled by mounting losses , the Fabius government of the day called for a change of course : ministers were to keep hands off state industries were not to be cushions against unemployment , and profit would be the test of performance . |
| 17 | But none of these volunteers has yet come from those screened out — only 27 have volunteered out of the 4,000 who have gone through the process and been found not to be refugees , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 18 | I can write to the hon. Gentleman with the figures , but the majority of arrivals from Vietnam who are screened are found not to be refugees . |
| 19 | Only those who are screened out — who are found by that procedure not to be refugees — are sent back to Vietnam . |
| 20 | The British Government has agreed that Vietnamese who are found not to be refugees should be returned to Vietnam . |
| 21 | Women are more likely than men both not to be members of such schemes and to work for employers without them . |
| 22 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 23 | That 's what I ask them ; not to be stars , but to become Valentino women . ’ |
| 24 | Fenella looked at Floy and remembered about the Robemaker and the way he had captured Nuadu and rendered them all helpless , and about the exiled Court and the sidh and the Tree Spirits that Miach had almost awoken , and which might turn out not to be friends , but enemies . |
| 25 | It may even be , if the young people involved broadly adopt the ‘ parent ’ culture , that they turn out not to be imperatives at all . |
| 26 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 27 | If your Dream is to own your own business , then picture yourself playing with a toy sweetshop at the age of seven , or deciding not to be wage-slaves like your parents , or managing the household budget as an adult . ) |
| 28 | Though appointed by the member governments , the commissioners were not to be representatives of national interests . |
| 29 | International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas . |
| 30 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |