Example sentences of "is [pron] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They will be so contaminated with the virus that there is nothing else to be done . |
| 2 | The specificity of literature , as Bukharin resolutely argued at the 1934 Congress , must be retained if the ideological effect of literature is itself not to be rendered impotent . |
| 3 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 4 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 5 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 6 | ‘ The night-scene when they were landing the herring is one never to be forgotten , especially in the early times . |
| 7 | Is there not to be any competition for the middle and majority of clubs ? |
| 8 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
| 9 | Is it enough to be competent and competitive in the music market ? |
| 10 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 11 | Is it always to be Mr. X or Mrs. X ? |
| 12 | Is ours ready to be — taken and enjoyed , do you think , mademoiselle ? ’ |