Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 2 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 3 | But I think good parents need the perspective which allows them sometimes to be selfish . |
| 4 | In Ashton 's version , as in the Russian staged version , the Tutor 's encounter with Katia , the servant girl , allows him momentarily to be back home amongst his master 's peasants . |
| 5 | It tells us there to be vigilant , vigilant with a view to prayers , is n't that staying awake ? |
| 6 | Being in love with God helps us immensely to be in love with our partner . |
| 7 | So religion helps us also to be tolerant of other people 's beliefs . |
| 8 | And he expects everybody else to be like that too . |
| 9 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |
| 10 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 11 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 12 | There is no reason but to think ( if one is a religious person ) that people were in tune with God in other ages , as indeed one believes oneself also to be . |