Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overseas financial institutions often come from a far different system in which rules and regulations are far more explicit , and tend not to be fully conversant with a less transparent form of control as operated by the Bank . |
| 2 | The best sources of all are those foods which have a high percentage of fibre and tend also to be consumed in reasonably large quantities … without providing too many calories , if you are slimming ! |
| 3 | ‘ And I 've just been back and checked just to be sure , ’ his mate added . |
| 4 | Early morning visitors to the fish market can see the catches — packed in ice at sea and winched ashore to be displayed in boxes — being auctioned from 7.30 a.m. onwards . |
| 5 | But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The occupant of the next room ( John Goodman ) makes a lot of noise and turns out to be a serial killer . |
| 10 | Kathleen went out that evening and had a drink with a girlfriend , and got back to be told by one of her neighbours that the phone had been ringing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After six years , the Mulla report is still ‘ under consideration ’ by the state governments , and has yet to be laid before Parliament . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 18 | ‘ You will freeze up again , become fierce and forget how to be alive . ’ |
| 19 | He woke in the small hours , feeling cold , and moved over to be closer to Carolyn 's warm body . |
| 20 | Parents may generally feel irritable with the child and expect not to be obeyed . |
| 21 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 22 | Perfect as a present for your mother or to complement your own wardrobe , each piece is fashioned in 9 carat gold and designed specifically to be co-ordinated within a Suite or worn on its own . |
| 23 | Cameron III was embarrassed by the Smash Hits following and tried not to be a teen idol , whereupon he was celebrated all the more . |
| 24 | In other words , while Tillich maintains that when finite particulars are given the status of ultimacy it is detrimental to true religion and a form of demonization , Gandhi insists that symbols which become fetishes are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 25 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 26 | Car lights came round a bend from that direction and seemed not to be travelling too fast . |
| 27 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 28 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 29 | We might try to find such a conceptual unity by making the distinction between sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning , and hope then to be able to equate semantics with the study of sentence-meaning and pragmatics with the study of utterance-meaning . |
| 30 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |