Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Western Railway set aside , £250 annually to be divided among the winners of twelve sections , with a first prize of £5 in each section . |
| 2 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 3 | Whether any of these intuitions are valid depends on the data yet to be reported . |
| 4 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 5 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 6 | Are people not to be trusted with too much knowledge of themselves ? |
| 7 | ‘ I would always tell people not to be too sensitive to the special offer mortgage rate but to look at the long-term history of how the lender treats borrowers and at all the extra fees attached , ’ says Ms Blackman . |
| 8 | Hi-fi officianardos are already advising people not to be too hasty in relinquishing their black vinyl record collections for fear that the CDs that they are replacing them with will fade in sound quality after ten years of use . |
| 9 | A WOMAN who fell victim to a cruel conman estimated to have swindled more than £1m is warning other people not to be taken in . |
| 10 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 11 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 12 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 13 | John Dyter has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Associateship of Honour — one of only four people nationwide to be conferred the honour this year . |
| 14 | In this we will meet the desires of your good father , who has been gracious enough to give permission for my suit and endow his future son with the means withal to be worthy of your hand . |
| 15 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 16 | So Paul calls upon all people everywhere to be reconciled to God ( 2 Cor. |
| 17 | He and a few friends discovered that there was big money to be made by injecting humour into an area traditionally ignored by the British — teaching staff how to be more effective . |
| 18 | It is interesting to speculate that in the fetus the G cells may , by a means yet to be identified , lead to the disappearance of parietal cells in their immediate vicinity . |
| 19 | But she would be a sheep indeed to be ruled only by that . |
| 20 | Take advantage of the enormous variety of fruit now to be found in the shops . |
| 21 | I 've just taken another pair today to be re-heeled . |