Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Yorkshire parish of Arksey , however , the vicar wrote in the register for 1729 : ‘ The greatest mortality that ever can be remembered , or made out to be ’ , and many other accounts speak of considerable distress . |
| 2 | It is clear from these examples that and on the one hand and and on the other were not , or came not to be , co-extensive , the former pair being , or becoming , confined to specific grades of medreses , the latter retaining , or developing , a wider geographical significance whose Importance is not altogether clear beyond the fact that it was impossible to get very far in the hierarchy without having taught in the . |
| 3 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been elected or returned a Member of this House , or endeavoured so to be , by Bribery or any other corrupt practices , this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such Bribery or other corrupt practices . |
| 4 | If your Dream is to own your own business , then picture yourself playing with a toy sweetshop at the age of seven , or deciding not to be wage-slaves like your parents , or managing the household budget as an adult . ) |
| 5 | There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . ) |
| 6 | WELL THERE 'S THE perfect hanging clause , and one that turns out to be surprisingly difficult to complete . |
| 7 | Could that answer be an intellectual deceit because you did n't , and do n't wish to be publicly identified as the boy going through travails that turns out to be so controversial ? |
| 8 | Her murder-solving cook Darina Lisle discovers more intrigue when she takes a job at a dying country house hotel that turns out to be a hotbed of sex and mystery . |
| 9 | I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it . |
| 10 | We , like the Chancellor , hope that turns out to be the case . ’ |
| 11 | On feet that tried desperately to be silent , Belinda crept away , not stopping or turning round until she reached the looming mass of the house . |
| 12 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 13 | This is a puzzle that has yet to be answered . |
| 14 | Beautifully constructed courses which immensely satisfy both student and teacher alike with their intelligence and vigour , they have set a standard for classroom work that has yet to be matched . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 16 | The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review . |
| 17 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 18 | His work retained a pronounced individuality and originality that has yet to be properly acknowledged . |
| 19 | The next event will take place in April , at a venue that has yet to be arranged , but will probably be in the Lothians . |
| 20 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 21 | With regard to phases of spectacular radiation , the two most important in the Phanerozoic record , affecting a large variety of organisms , correlate closely with major physical events that appear ultimately to be bound up with plate tectonics . |
| 22 | ‘ As you probably know , Major Maxim is attached to Number 10 for duties that appear not to be precisely defined but touch on security matters . |
| 23 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 24 | It was this principle that seemed now to be inadequate . |
| 25 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 26 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
| 27 | I would have cut my throat rather than grow up to be like my Mam . |
| 28 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 29 | And the Democrats among them also know that if they went on record against a war that turned out to be a great victory , President Bush would be even harder to beat in 1992 . |
| 30 | Even that turned out to be no simple task . |