Example sentences of "and [conj] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A public company has a major advantage over a private company in that only public companies are able to offer shares to the public at large , and where possible to be quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 2 | We recognised there was a need to ensure quality and consistency in everything we did , to be able to point out to our customers how we do things , and where necessary to be audited on these procedures . |
| 3 | She is moving to the north in January and although sorry to be leaving Kent , is looking forward , with her husband , to living on the outskirts of Sheffield overlooking the Derbyshire dales . |
| 4 | The nameless , the humble , the ignorant and the overlooked were his chosen material , to be recorded and given their true place , and if possible to be transformed by love . |
| 5 | It seems to us that it is a perfectly proper use of ordinary language and as such to be readily understood by ordinary literate men and women to say of a person in this appellant 's position that his services as an accountant were ‘ employed ’ by his customers , and that this state of affairs is properly to be described by the word ‘ employment . ’ |