Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen partial or complete sets are known , especially from graves in Kent , but also from the upper Thames valley where they tend not to be complete . |
| 2 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 3 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 4 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 5 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 6 | ‘ They have a very complex structure and at first sight they appear not to be connected in any way , ’ said Professor Mann . |
| 7 | Further , firms ' employment policies may be discriminatory even when they appear not to be . |
| 8 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 9 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 10 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 11 | They seemed not to be , but it was difficult to be sure that they had not simply managed to turn away again in time . |
| 12 | The Decameron stories are used merely as test material and were chosen because they seemed intuitively to be constructed primarily in narrative terms , as opposed to psychological , philosophical or descriptive ones . |
| 13 | As yet the list of lords who were individually summoned to attend had not hardened , so that lay peers ( as they came later to be called ) fluctuated from around fifty to a hundred , and alongside the twenty-one bishops a varying number of abbots and priors — sometimes as many as seventy , occasionally more , often fewer — were invited to attend . |
| 14 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 15 | Central reforms were eventually to adjust such discrepancies , but as with the tax changes , they turned out to be blunt bureaucratic instruments not sufficiently finely tuned to local needs . |
| 16 | They turned out to be totally placid ; just as well , since they are the size of hornets . |
| 17 | They turned out to be ladies ' . |
| 18 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 19 | They turned out to be very nice digs , but I was still faced , for the first time in my life , with the practicalities of keeping myself fed and clothed , and getting to lectures and passing exams . |
| 20 | Unfortunately they turned out to be two fools who did n't realise the time , and brought Mountain Rescue out combing the hill for them next morning . |
| 21 | They turned out to be practically unbreakable as well as hard-wearing . |
| 22 | I could hardly refuse to speak to such a good customer on the basis of your suspicions — however correct they turned out to be . |
| 23 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 24 | He had been hoping they might be filled with something a little stronger than tobacco … having heard stories about Scandinavian teenagers … but was disappointed when they turned out to be regular cigarettes . |
| 25 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 26 | If you bought some shoes described as leather and they turned out to be made of plastic then clearly you 've bought some shoes which are not as described . |
| 27 | And they turned out to be made of manmade fibres . |
| 28 | One day Victoria made herself a pair of earrings out of porcelain to go with a particular dress , and they turned out to be the start of a new part-time career . |
| 29 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 30 | Much to Oliver 's annoyance they turned out to be rather good at it . |