Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is not data she is an intervening variable to be eliminated . |
| 2 | However some elderly people , by contrast , have an acute wish to be left alone to die in their own surroundings with the minimum of attention . |
| 3 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 4 | I believe that there 's an awful lot to be learnt from taking the much more targeted industrial point of view because the research becomes tidier . |
| 5 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 6 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 7 | Burgoyne and Clark(1984) describe the ‘ conscious parenthood ’ of step-parents as a rational rather than an emotional effort to be a ‘ good parent ’ compared with childrearing as a central and spontaneous activity for natural parents . |
| 8 | Erm that one 's a bit of an odd question to be honest with you because I 'm finding because I 've had an exam in this , that this is the hardest . |
| 9 | The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life . |
| 10 | It seems an odd time to be holding a political meeting , and Neil may have to come straight from the Palace , but the organisers say that all the participants have pledged to attend . |
| 11 | Amanda : What an odd thing to be glad about . |
| 12 | It seems an odd thing to be grateful for . |
| 13 | There is an Introductory Workshop to be held in London on Saturday , 9th July ‘ 88 , so why not go and see for yourselves what Medau Teacher Training would involve . |
| 14 | Because what makes the Horde potentially extraordinary is that they 're one of the handful of Irish acts outside the inner star circle genuinely possessed of an unquenched desire to be more than musical tradesmen . |
| 15 | Meanwhile 21 industrialized countries , gathered under the auspices of IEA , had elaborated an oil-sharing arrangement to be invoked in the event of any disruption which caused a shortfall of 7 per cent or more in a member country 's normal supply arrangements . |
| 16 | It will be an interim attempt to be seen to be doing something to replace the discredited poll tax . |
| 17 | In his Sept. 11 radio broadcast Iliescu also strongly condemned proposals said to be emanating from a joint Hungarian-Polish-Czechoslovakian working group for the economic integration of Transylvania ( home of Romania 's ethnic Hungarian minority ) into an economic space to be created by the three countries . |
| 18 | By the outbreak of war in 1939 , he was 32 and compared with other pilots was an old man to be flying against German fighters . |
| 19 | Given the size of the European constituencies , it will be difficult , if not impossible , for some candidates to become widely known and for an informed choice to be made . |
| 20 | Although we have discussed the duty of an occupier to lawful visitors in relation to guests and customers , the duty is also owed to employees and other people such as tradespeople who have a legitimate purpose , and thus an implied permission to be on the premises . |
| 21 | Now he faces an uphill struggle to be fit in time for the British Clubman 's championship a series he had hoped to win this season . |
| 22 | These should be major counselling objectives , and encouraging an ageing person to be part of such a group would indeed constitute a major counselling success . |
| 23 | Fishing for predatory bream with imitation or real fish should be regarded as an opportunist method to be employed when you happen to see bream chasing fry , or when you have tried all conventional methods and failed ; or simply when you fancy your chances with a fish bait . |
| 24 | Since the aircraft was registered in the UK ( as G-BEBP ) , the UK was entitled under Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation to participate in the Zambian investigation into the cause of the accident , so the standing arrangements for an investigating team to be despatched to the scene was put into effect . |
| 25 | Intellectually it was an exciting time to be a research student in the English Faculty . |
| 26 | An exciting place to be in ! |
| 27 | It is at least one possible explanation of a garbled fable , nicely spiced as an entertaining story to be recounted , no doubt with gusto , at the great feasts . |
| 28 | The heady world of the international art market at the turn of the century is the background to an interesting exhibition to be held at the Rijksmuseum from 23 January to 2 May . |
| 29 | It was an interesting time to be at the centre , for news was beginning to get through from Burma and plans for reconstruction after liberation were being drawn up . |
| 30 | The teachers in the two departments are possessed of a missionary zeal to improve the quality of their pupils ' lives ; they do not want an English education to be useful or vocational , but to enable the pupils to think critically about themselves , about life , and about society . |