Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you also turned down the chance to be his girlfriend ? ’ |
| 3 | The Frenchman 's blade rang like a bell on Sharpe 's sword , then scraped down the steel to be stopped by the heavy disc hilt . |
| 4 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 5 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 6 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 7 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 8 | So the lesson to be learnt from that is that erm it 's not always possible to keep yourself out of trouble , but you can do what you have to do to keep yourself safe by maintaining a proper separation distance . |
| 9 | I was in the middle of the kop for this game , and in the first half it was very much the place to be . |
| 10 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 11 | They also accept that the brain has certain innate dispositions , if only the disposition to be reinforced by particular stimuli . |
| 12 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 13 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 14 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 15 | He was just the person to be drawn into psychical research , and also into work on the boundary of matter and energy , a frontier like that between body and mind . |
| 16 | A ride on the Big Dipper is not on the prize list , just the chance to be part of the TSB English Schools Athletics Championships , one of the biggest events of its kind in the world . |
| 17 | the expert sailers say its not a beginners ' boat but will give an exciting performance … they think it will be a good test of skill … and it 's a great boat to sail … it 's fantastic … just the craft to be in |
| 18 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 19 | And that is why Peter 's office decided long ago that he was not the person to be first to hear news about the latest software products . |
| 20 | ‘ 'T IS not the day to be thinking of the past , ’ he said . |
| 21 | She 's not the type to be an unmarried mother . ’ |
| 22 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 23 | But that millions had not the courage to be good . ’ |
| 24 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 25 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |
| 26 | With the current interest in fetal nutrition and its influence on health in later life , now is not the time to be turning our backs on this important issue . |
| 27 | Whatever had happened in the past , this was not the time to be aloof , Ashley thought , as she allowed him to lead her away . |
| 28 | Dowty says that after a rocky patch during the recession , when the company was forced to axe 1,800 jobs , it 's fortunes are picking up ; not the time to be selling out . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 30 | No , Peru 's just not the place to be at the moment . ’ |