Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 2 | In his professional opinion this was overreaction on my part , and he was extremely inconvenienced by my insistence not to be examined internally by him . |
| 3 | Personally , I prefer my fingerboards either to be bound with something you can see or left plain as nature intended , but for some reason Saga obviously like their fret-ends disguised . |
| 4 | This sympathy ( and attention ) hardened my resolve not to be put upon . |
| 5 | I have to tell the house I have in fact put my name forward to be considered as a candidate to stand to stand for Conservative |
| 6 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 7 | I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … . |
| 8 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 9 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's asking a bit much of my brain even to be compos mentis , let alone capable of storming anything . ’ |
| 11 | The search for Surere , the first of its kind ever to be conducted by the Medjays , had been organised with precision by Merymose . |
| 12 | The Nagorny Karabakh Supreme Soviet presidium on July 1 reversed its decision not to be represented at the Rome negotiations [ see p. 38975 ] . |
| 13 | So give her reasons not to be naughty . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 15 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 16 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 17 | They would have to send their gear out to be reviewed , and wait for the reviews to come back to know whether or not the product was any good ! ’ |
| 18 | I think this is the problem that is going to arise with a lot of teachers responsible for art courses … who 've been quite accustomed to sending their work off to be marked by somebody else , now they 're suddenly going to be faced with mounting and displaying the work , making some judgments themselves and justifying their work . |
| 19 | The disk just sitting there , its mysteries yet to be unravelled … |
| 20 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 21 | The noisy exchanges in the House of Commons and her determination not to be shouted down by the opposition make her sound hectoring and strident . |
| 22 | The animal bounced back to its feet only to be killed by a bus . |
| 23 | In the sphere of education , the Act applies to direct and indirect discrimination ( defined at page 70 ) or victimisation ( treating someone less favourably because they are asserting their right not to be discriminated against ) by schools and LEAs in a variety of contexts . |
| 24 | It is the right of slaves to be free , their right not to be treated as another 's property , their right not to be used as a mere means to another 's end — it is these basic moral rights that a system of chattel slavery systematically violates , not the principle that we must count equal interests equally . |
| 25 | It is the right of slaves to be free , their right not to be treated as another 's property , their right not to be used as a mere means to another 's end — it is these basic moral rights that a system of chattel slavery systematically violates , not the principle that we must count equal interests equally . |
| 26 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
| 27 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 28 | Why did men always try and make their failings out to be her fault ? |
| 29 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 30 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |