Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know whether or not to be disappointed . |
| 2 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 3 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 4 | Not your nose — to be or not to be beautiful |
| 5 | Thus , not to act or not to be able to act decisively against the ban in the first place seriously questioned the professional association 's ability to take a firm position on the vital matter of unhindered access to legitimate publications . |
| 6 | Moreover , not to act or not to be able to act decisively , seriously weakened the resolve of members in making a choice between professional standards and employers ' decisions . |
| 7 | The whole place has got an air of being run down , and county council , I think to be honest , would quite like it to fall down , or just to be able to develop the whole site . |
| 8 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 9 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 10 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 11 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 12 | The importance of the latter was conveyed in the opening chapters dealing with ‘ camping , camp life , tracking , woodcraft , or , knowledge of animals and nature , saving life , or how to deal with accidents ’ , which were followed by chapters with advice and exhortation : ‘ Endurance for Scouts , or how to be strong ’ , ‘ Chivalry of the Knights ’ and finally , ‘ Patriotism , or our Duties as Citizens ’ . |
| 13 | I think we can easily put erm pits for daily life or how to be environmental . |
| 14 | Crack-stopping or how to be tough |
| 15 | They were all in a state of becoming engaged or about to be married ; nearly all virginal , but on the verge of something else . |
| 16 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 17 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 18 | Among negative rights , we should include the rights : not to be indoctrinated ; not to be subject to unnecessary ideology ; not to experience racialist , sexist or religious bias ; and not to be subject to unprofessional practices by teaching staff in admissions , in teaching and in examining . |
| 19 | Increasing the commitment with the treasurer and not to be rash with it but the people understand people who are mostly killed in churches and and either way should not pass to amend a resolution for the Council . |
| 20 | Let us be kind and thoughtful and not to be unkind and hurt other people . |
| 21 | It was the threat of disturbing the order — an order hard worked for and not to be upset because surely worse would replace it . |
| 22 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 23 | It was very good to have someone like that — someone who keeps pushing you and telling you that you can do it and not to be shy . ’ |
| 24 | Not to be alone , and not to be vulnerable any more . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a principle of construction of United Kingdom statutes , now too well established to call for citation of authority , that the words of a statute passed after the Treaty has been signed and dealing with the subject matter of the international obligation of the United Kingdom , are to be construed , if they are reasonably capable of bearing such a meaning , as intended to carry out the obligation , and not to be inconsistent with it . |
| 26 | She said she tried to keep her attacker talking and not to be aggressive . |
| 27 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 28 | It 'll seem strange to us , ’ she observed , with the first hint of bitterness Breeze had heard from her , ‘ to live in other people 's houses on sufferance , as it were , and not to be able to invite our friends , or go out , even , except at certain times . |
| 29 | ‘ It must be hell having a woman like Gwen and not to be able to strut around in public possession . |
| 30 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |