Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once the truth becomes apparent , nephew , ’ explained Richard of Gloucester , and I judge there to be no further danger of a rising to place another on the throne or appoint another as Lord Protector , Vaughan and Rivers shall be released — and no harm done . ’ |
| 2 | I expect soon to be engaged , you see . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Tuesday : After rehearsals I drive home to be fed by my own loving mother , down South for the duration . |
| 4 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
| 5 | If he is , I go upstairs to be by myself . |
| 6 | All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that . |
| 7 | As I say when you become a councillor you do not do it for money , I mean I think probably to be a better reason to become a councillor these days . |
| 8 | I 've yet to be convinced of this , I 'm still waiting to find out . |
| 9 | Helen tells me you want to do farm work as well , and although I 'm told women vets are just as good as men I 've yet to be convinced . |
| 10 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 11 | But I have yet to be convinced ( as some publicity suggests ) that the centre of the dance universe is now located in France . |
| 12 | But I have yet to be convinced of the need that these should be taken at two particular times in a student 's school career . |
| 13 | Ludes wines are welcomed for their use in blending of cuvées , they have the body and vinosity of a true Montagne wine , but I have yet to be convinced that a single growth Ludes can be a complete wine on its own . |
| 14 | ‘ So you say , but I have yet to be convinced . |
| 15 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 16 | I 'm not brilliant but I have only to be shown once . |
| 17 | However a great deal of casual conversation contains phrases and echoes of phrases which appear more to be intended as contributions to a conversation than to be taken as instances of information-giving . |
| 18 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 19 | Boiffard 's telescopically enlarged shot of a big toe ( Le Gros Orteuil ) , which seem primarily to be ( in this case phallic ) signifiers . |
| 20 | This was the case in their technique of writing or drawing on photos , or photographing bits of reality — like J. A. Boiffard 's telescopically enlarged shot of a big toe ( Le Gros Orteil ) — which seem primarily to be ( in this case phallic ) signifiers . |
| 21 | There are many enchantments which have been woven into dwellings and which need only to be harnessed . |
| 22 | Mr Brown 's requests suggest there were further hidden subsidies which have yet to be disclosed officially . |
| 23 | Before the Gulf war , the cartel sanctioned two fare increases , which have yet to be reversed despite the subsequent fall in fuel prices . |
| 24 | There will be a transitional period , details of which have yet to be released , during which the amount of the repayment within an accounting period will be reduced . |
| 25 | By the end of April next year it is hoped the project will have created between six and eight additional walks , in locations which have yet to be decided . |
| 26 | Apart from famous chateaux like Sanssouci and Rheinsberg , the book covers lesser known country houses , medieval monasteries , historic villages and small towns , as well as twentieth-century villas , estates and utilitarian buildings , most of which have yet to be ( re ) discovered by a wider public in the West . |
| 27 | This creates additional problems of target language suitability , problems which have yet to be solved . |
| 28 | With the changing balance of power between the working and middle class , it is suggested that we have witnessed the destruction of traditional codes which have yet to be replaced by a similarly coherent new set : |
| 29 | Miss Rantzen was ordered to pay a third of the newspaper 's appeal costs — which have yet to be calculated . |
| 30 | Indeed , the Secretary of State for the Environment has said that we should remove the county council layer of government and move down to all-purpose districts , the size and boundaries of which have yet to be decided . |