Example sentences of "[det] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that merely to be sociable — for her husband 's sake — or should he read something more into it ? |
| 2 | Stunt persons and dancers , not exceptionally tall but fairly thin , were employed to get unusual , quirky movements , and the scale was faked by using additional puppets , 8 feet ( 2.4m ) tall and very thin , of several types for individual shots , some merely to be destroyed . |
| 3 | The micro will allow this both to be used and further explored . |
| 4 | The books are written in what would seem to some today to be a slow and overly elaborate way — who after all uses words such as ‘ eleemosynary ’ ? — but he explores all of his characters thoroughly and gives lots of detail which , though not absolutely necessary and sometimes totally irrelevant , make the novel more personal and make the readers feel that they know the characters . |
| 5 | Others , like Bidault or de Gaulle , had no doubt : but for this even to be approximately true the contribution of her overseas territories was indispensable . |
| 6 | Lucy Jackson will again be organising this even to be held at Kensington . |
| 7 | Lucy Jackson will again be organising this even to be held at Kensington . |
| 8 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 9 | The approach outlined here leaves much still to be investigated . |
| 10 | He loved her too much even to be able to imagine such a thing ; Pavel 's was the love of Judas , a devotion so great that it encompassed even betrayal . |
| 11 | There is much yet to be done to try to improve our network and increase our numbers , with the object hopefully of enriching the life of both the graduate members and the University . |
| 12 | The situations encountered during an MAS engagement are too varied for that ever to be possible , nor is it intended to be a substitute for discussion within the network . |
| 13 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 14 | As you saying to us all only to be said interest in the matter i in the erm the merging matter to . |
| 15 | Such a view will seem to many today to be both unacceptable and shocking . |
| 16 | Somebody ought to do a research project into it ; the answers are all there to be unearthed , if you 've got the time and the energy . ’ |
| 17 | Predictably , he wanted above all else to be an actor but , when he had the chance of realising his ambition by working overseas , for some reason the Home Office refused an exit permit . |
| 18 | In bad organizations the objectives are decided unilaterally , very often as a result of a political trading-off process at the board and at other levels , and are perceived by those below to be quite unrealistic and impossible of achievement . |
| 19 | The government was defeated in the General Election of June 1970 before further progress could be made on proposals which would have added another 3.3 million people to those already to be covered by two-tier local government . |
| 20 | Petty was evidently of sufficient prominence in the radical popular movement , among those soon to be known as Levellers , to be chosen as one of their spokesmen or representatives to attend the meetings of the general council of the army in 1647 . |
| 21 | If he wins , say , 60 per cent of those still to be fought , in a thinning field , he will still need 300 of the 772 ‘ super-delegates ’ to wrap up the nomination . |
| 22 | Although the benefits of dietary fibre are still in the process of scientific investigation , we want to make sure that you do n't miss out on any of the advantages , both those which are known and those still to be fully revealed . |
| 23 | The the facilities the kind of things I mean what what kind of you know the ki erm is erm Would you like more there to be more friendly people or not , do you or do you think there 's enough ? |
| 24 | Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station . |
| 25 | He mentions Teucrium marum growing in the warm borders of Kensington palace Gardens in the early part of the century , clipped to conical forms three feet high , but there is little else to be found about eighteenth century palace gardens in the Dictionary . |
| 26 | But Hugh of Lyons counselled acceptance , and indeed there was little else to be done . |