Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
| 2 | But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ . |
| 3 | Frodo 's elegy for Gandalf ends on the word ‘ died ’ ; but Sam 's coda prefers ‘ flowers ’ , and turns out to be truer in the end . |
| 4 | Around the corner , the small office which looks like a hole in the wall of a shady bookie and turns out to be something of an art gallery , is again amiably in flow . |
| 5 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 6 | The occupant of the next room ( John Goodman ) makes a lot of noise and turns out to be a serial killer . |
| 7 | GIS research into site selection for non-nuclear hazardous waste has been almost exclusively conducted in North America and has yet to be matched in the UK . |
| 8 | After six years , the Mulla report is still ‘ under consideration ’ by the state governments , and has yet to be laid before Parliament . |
| 9 | This type of situation may exist in other cases of language interaction , but it is not universal : in any event , the model seems " leaky " and has yet to be demonstrated to be valid in any bilingual community where code switching occurs . |
| 10 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 11 | Many passsages in the Jewish scriptures refer to the way in which religious observance itself can become an enormous obstacle and has constantly to be overcome . |
| 12 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 13 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 14 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 15 | No doubt people must learn hairdressing ; but until the subject crosses into physiology — and ceases therefore to be hairdressing — it is not education . |
| 16 | The literature in this area is fragmentary and tends either to be definitional or descriptive . |
| 17 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 18 | She starts life as an adorable little girl and grows up to be an extraordinarily beautiful woman . ’ |
| 19 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 20 | Over the next five days , events behind the scenes moved at breakneck speed , although with Admiral Thomson keeping the lid screwed down tight on the newspapers , radio and newsreels , the British public had little to feed on except rumours , and snippets not to be trusted but disturbingly suggestive — gleaned from German broadcasts . |
| 21 | The most satisfactory extrinsic marker is [ 3H ] thymidine which , due to the rapid cell cycle of early post-implantation embryonic cells , is quickly taken up by the vast majority of cells and appears not to be deleterious to development ( 25 ) . |
| 22 | That was , and appears still to be , the view of Labour Members ; it is not the view , however , of those who shape policy on the Labour Front Bench . |
| 23 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 24 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 25 | By now G. is no longer suspicious of me but turns out to be a lively , talkative , and intelligent man . |
| 26 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 27 | The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better . |
| 28 | The third woman of world class is Marie Laure de Lorenzi , who wins everything in Europe but has yet to be persuaded that America is worth a detour . |
| 29 | This lesson appears to have been accepted in principle ( Department of Trade and Industry , 1988 , 1989 ) but has yet to be implemented . |
| 30 | Members of the US Congress and environmentalists are concerned that the agreement , which has been signed but has yet to be ratified , will encourage US companies to transfer operations across the border to Mexico to take advantage of lax enforcement of labour and environmental standards . |