Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 2 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 3 | workload/demand measures : to indicate the amount due or to be done ; |
| 4 | Women are educated from an early age to distrust strangers , to avoid lonely places , to return home when it is light or to be accompanied when it is dark . |
| 5 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 6 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 7 | In the light of the preceding discussion it is necessary to consider the methodology of comparative industrial relations more fully since it is clear that to be of value the studies need to be appropriately designed and the cases to be compared require careful selection . |
| 8 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |
| 9 | It must be accepted that standards set are real , attainable and to be attained . |
| 10 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 11 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 12 | In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated . |
| 13 | If appropriate provision for expulsion is essential , it is as well also to consider the eventuality of partners leaving in less contentious circumstances , if only to ensure ( as considered above ) that the firm 's finances are so arranged as to be able to cope with both expected and unexpected departures . |
| 14 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 15 | But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural ’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well-entrenched interests . |
| 16 | Similarly , overachieving can be an addiction if the achievement is to no purpose or gratification while at the same time the costs to other relationships may be so high as to be catastrophic . |
| 17 | A material so light as to be virtually indistinguishable from natural slate . |
| 18 | When the original ingredients of a dish become obsolete or so debased as to be unrecognizable radical change is preferable to make-believe replacements . |
| 19 | Despite the three-hour length , the descent of Kathy Bates 's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible . |
| 20 | They may consider that many forms of non-consensual sexual intercourse are not so grave as to be labelled rape . |
| 21 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |
| 22 | Then he paid his fare , added a tip so meagre as to be barely decent , and shuffled across the pavement , through the front gate , and down the path to his semi-detached residence . |
| 23 | Almost every eventuality has been foreseen , but this has necessitated a complicated set of forms which , although simple in principle , are so detailed as to be regarded by many as impractical . |
| 24 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |
| 25 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 26 | His dark suit was impeccable , his hair was exactly the right length , and the fragrance of his aftershave was just sufficiently elusive as to be almost unbearably tantalising . |
| 27 | So , word-play is found in many other kinds of discourse type , especially in Britain and British English , such as advertising , and headlinese : it is actually so prevalent as to be inescapable ( " It 's enough to make your kin scrawl " — Crayola ) . |
| 28 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 29 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 30 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |