Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This trend for library guides to be more flexible , to be better designed or to be tailored more to the needs of the user is encouraging , but it all goes for nought if the user does not use them . |
| 2 | They were so designed as to be easily folded up , enabling the car to be thoroughly cleaned . |
| 3 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 4 | I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it . |
| 5 | If the database comprises data representing three-dimensional articles , for example a database of co-ordinates describing sculptures or industrial designs , that database may be considered to be a collection of artistic works so represented or to be a literary work as a compilation . |
| 6 | In Cook v. Alexander ( C.A. , 1973 ) qualified privilege was accorded to a " Parliamentary Sketch " which , although impressionistic and selective , was considered by the court to be sufficiently balanced as to be fair and reasonable . |
| 7 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 8 | Aggression , in the Morrissey vision , is something which is both permitted and to be encouraged in certain circumstances . |
| 9 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 10 | This stretches from just below the wing fringe down to a point level with the centreline of the single chevron ; the joins are so finely stitched as to be almost invisible . |
| 11 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out , severely , that he would be needed , either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class , or possibly both . |
| 12 | It had been made in Austria , I believe , of wool so densely woven as to be impervious to rain . |
| 13 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 14 | She had no idea , until then , why she was acting as she was , or what she suspected , or why , indeed , she should suspect anything but a straight pick-up , and one so simply and attractively engineered as to be quite unalarming ; a normal minor wolf on the prowl , with a long weekend to while away , and an eye cocked for congenial company , preferably intimate , but in any case gratifying . |
| 15 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 16 | The relevant details should be so well learned as to be recalled in their entirety without any need to consult the guide during the actual descent . |
| 17 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 18 | These are the widespread fictions or myths about the language , some of which are so universally accepted as to be pedagogical orthodoxy . |
| 19 | The court must be given reasons for the decision , together with details of any service or assistance actually provided or to be provided in the future , or any other action taken or proposed ( s37(3) ) . |
| 20 | People say that if you do n't ask you get told more , but I have never found that to be true . |
| 21 | They are a quiet peaceful fish and some say delicate but I have never found that to be the case . |
| 22 | The Left , even in the local Labour parties , tended to move in a world of the politically involved and to be far more responsive to what was happening in Europe than were most British voters . |
| 23 | It is commonly believed that to be an affective manager , it is necessary to exercise the role of leadership . |