Example sentences of "[subord] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 2 | If sound insulation is also needed , glass fibre matting can be inserted between boards and walls , although to be really effective , this needs a separate timber frame , adjacent to , but not touching the separating wall . |
| 3 | Such a measure means accepting that compulsory powers are necessary to ensure that this circumscribed group of detained patients are encouraged to maintain their continued care in the community , rather than to be frequently detained in hospital or to become a casualty in the community . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing means more to me than to be here with this bunch of guys and bring the Cup back where it should be . ’ |
| 5 | To see a disturbed animal rehomed several times and to witness the disastrous consequences and schizophrenic mess of a dog which results , one soon realises there are worse things which can happen to a dog than to be humanely destroyed . |
| 6 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 7 | The main thesis of the attitudinist theory of ethics can now be expressed as the claim that the most general ethical words have a primarily valuational meaning , while to be properly ethical at all , a word must have a meaning which is partly valuational . |
| 8 | Animals must , and can only , remain unaware of their fate since to be even possibly otherwise would involve an understanding of dying , and its implications for one 's desire to continue living . |
| 9 | This is made easier by the shift in the ideological climate discussed earlier , since to be too soft on those convicted would be to prolong the permissive trend which had led to the high crime levels and the chronic economic problems . |
| 10 | It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion . |
| 11 | Even to maintain his ratings at their present level — with 22 per cent in one poll choosing him as their preferred Prime Minister in a field that included Mrs Thatcher — he has no choice but to be constantly audible and visible . |
| 12 | The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent . |
| 13 | I can tell from Lil 's face , she ca n't decide whether to be diabolically proud of her achievements , or mortally ashamed . |
| 14 | ‘ Mon dieu ! ’ said the little man , not apparently sure whether to be terribly angry or frightfully cross , ‘ Nicole ! ’ |
| 15 | This reader did not know whether to be more depressed by the carefully presented statistics , or the faint praise offered to bus managements for their efforts to rescue some kind of order from a rising tide of chaos . |
| 16 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 17 | These processes are viewed as essentially positive , but as possessing intrinsic dangers , in as much as either specificity or abstraction may develop in such a manner as to be no longer assimilable by the subject through sublation , in which case they become both alien and oppressive . |
| 18 | ‘ Beaks ’ , ‘ Kill ’ and ‘ Squeekers ’ are heavy on chirpy keyboard inflections , Beach Boys harmonies and nifty guitar breaks ; but they 're so bland as to be downright irritating . |
| 19 | The water is so alive as to be slightly horrific . |
| 20 | without there being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle 8 . |
| 21 | ‘ without being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ This element means that the ‘ L ’ plate must be unobscured , straight , as near to vehicle as possible and not wrapped around the forks of the motor bike or the bumper bar of a car etc . |
| 22 | ‘ without there being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ The police officer 's evidence is required to the effect that both ‘ L ’ plates were missing , one of the two was missing , that the white surround had been cut off , that the ‘ L ’ plates were torn , dirty or otherwise illegible . |
| 23 | Over vast distances the monotonies , as well as the varieties and contrasts , elide with such painful gradualness one into another as to be scarcely noticeable . |
| 24 | All lines on maps , depicting features such as roads , contours and boundaries , are drawn so as to be easily visible to the user . |
| 25 | They were so designed as to be easily folded up , enabling the car to be thoroughly cleaned . |
| 26 | If a structural floor is needed , however , then proper floor joists of adequate size must be laid between the ceiling joists , so as to be completely independent from the ceiling . |
| 27 | Television " soap opera " families may be so " perfect " as to be distinctly abnormal . |
| 28 | What is required in such a scenario is an insurrectionary appropriation so radical as to be also necessarily perverse : Fanon uses Hegel , Freud , and Sartre but in each case simultaneously contests and perverts fundamental principles of their thought . |
| 29 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |
| 30 | He would hear news of her , which he would find hard to bear , because a fragment of information about a familiar who has suddenly become perplexing is so insufficient as to be nearly intolerable . |