Example sentences of "to be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 32 | But now there 's going to be even more choice . |
| 33 | GAME players still reeling from this year 's wealth of super graphics and intricate formats had better recharge their batteries now — 1993 is going to be even more of a challenge . |
| 34 | There were debuts for Paul Ince , David White and David Bardsley last night and there are sure to be even more changes for the opening World Cup qualifying tie against Norway at Wembley on October 14 . |
| 35 | Indeed , while there is concern over the long-term effects of population losses from northern regions of Britain , in some circles there appears to be even more anxiety about the failure of migration to produce a speedier matching of workers to jobs ( Department of Employment , 1986 ; Minford , 1985 ) . |
| 36 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 37 | As we move across the map the members of a particular community , " A " , will perceive their relationship to the members of another community , " B " , to be either that of kinsmen or of non-kinsmen and the distinction is likely to be of critical " political " importance . |
| 38 | For his gut was still queasy with occasional pain : Rab hoped not to be up all through the night . |
| 39 | Japan Computer Corp is forecasting sales to be up this year by 35% , for total revenues of $23m . |
| 40 | So if it 's less than three centimetres from P it 's got to be up this end . |
| 41 | In these new circumstances of ‘ open parties ’ and ‘ participatory politics ’ it became possible for outsiders to seize nominations irrespective of the wishes of party leaders , and Jimmy Carter proved to be just such a candidate . |
| 42 | I do n't want to be just that little fulfilment . |
| 43 | In the USSR and Japan , national teams are also pursuing the dream , but to many observers it seems to be just that — a dream that may not be fulfilled . |
| 44 | There are therefore , Devlin suggests , many matters of private morality which are brought within the ambit of the criminal law , for if everything that was not designed to preserve order and decency or to protect citizens were removed from the criminal law , several crimes would cease to be just that , e.g. euthanasia , suicide , attempted suicide , abortion , incest between brother and sister , etc . |
| 45 | It was a pleasure to meet and be enrolled by you at the W/W Show and I 'm glad that the Fellowship is going to be just that . |
| 46 | The HRD practitioner might want to cite examples from his or her own experience of the fact that ‘ quick-fix ’ changes tend to be just that — first-aid treatments that do not have a base for perpetuation . |
| 47 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 48 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 49 | Sadly , experience suggests that most doctors would have thought the booklet to be just more advertising for Opren and thrown it straight into their wastepaper basket , unless the representative drew particular attention to the studies in question . |
| 50 | There was little further public interest in what appeared to be just another statistic . |
| 51 | The advantage of a low Christology would seem to be that Jesus is considered to be just another human , one among us , our brother . |
| 52 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 53 | On the training ground I want to be just another player . ’ |
| 54 | They used to be just another attraction at a children 's zoo — but then they learned to trampoline . |
| 55 | The rules for operating in symbolic algebra are to be just those of arithmetic algebra . |
| 56 | MegaCAD 3.3 claims to be just this — with ‘ rapid learning whilst maintaining the highest efficiency being the uppermost principles ’ . |
| 57 | Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) for 1990 was expected to be slightly less than the 9.2 per cent of 1989 . |
| 58 | Although the harvest yield was expected to be slightly less than in 1989 , buoyant world prices meant that the growers were likely to reap record payments . |
| 59 | Both turned out to be slightly more than required . |
| 60 | ‘ If you 're going to be away all day tomorrow , George , perhaps Martha would come down and keep me company . ’ |