Example sentences of "[adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 32 | He had a reprieve which was of indefinite length but better to be pessimistic than otherwise . |
| 33 | Better to be like Dada . |
| 34 | Better to be hot than visible . |
| 35 | Better to be safe , and all that . |
| 36 | Better to be safe than sorry . |
| 37 | ‘ Better to be safe , ’ he added wryly , handing her the flower-patterned gown . |
| 38 | Better to be silent . |
| 39 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 40 | It was extraordinary , she told herself , how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems , and with such authority , too . |
| 41 | The government 's plan is that tax-dodging is suddenly to be made dramatically more difficult , by reorganising the tax-collecting system and making it easier for the taxman to spot the dodgers . |
| 42 | The significance of the weakening of the royal family and the ranks of the nobility through death and illness in the 1360s , and especially in 1368 and 1369 , those two years when English fortunes seemed suddenly to be reversed , should not be underestimated . |
| 43 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
| 44 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 45 | He felt irretrievably alone and the woman beside him seemed suddenly to be a total stranger . |
| 46 | Would not it be a disaster for business throughout the country suddenly to be confronted by a long list of new regulations and constraints ? |
| 47 | A huge , suffocating cloud seemed suddenly to be hovering above Lindsey 's head . |
| 48 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
| 49 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 50 | I liked his gentle , unimpeded sense of flow in the opening Andante dolce ( his slightly brisker tempo does n't quite achieve the same buoyancy as Richter ) , and his finely controlled phrasing and subtle ‘ nodal-pointing ’ are much to be admired also . |
| 51 | 3 Stock should be arranged neatly in drawers or on shelves 5 When goods have been taken out ( eg to be shown to a customer ) they should be returned to their correct storage place . |
| 52 | In the near future , following a Russian Presidential Decree , a centralised fund for the storage of captured art treasures is apparently to be set up , a kind of depository with restoration facilities . |
| 53 | Perhaps we should blame the English for this , because it started to be built early in the thirteenth century , when Bayonne was ours , and the English royal arms of the day are apparently to be found , alongside those of France , emblazoned on some of the keystones of the very high vaulting in the nave . |
| 54 | It also does not correspond to the fundamental assumptions on which the new security systems should be based , for essential elements which would guarantee security are apparently to be excluded . |
| 55 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 56 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 57 | They were tight to the elbows then flared out , falling nearly to her knees , allowing the embroidery inside to be seen . |
| 58 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 59 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 60 | She struggled unavailingly to be free . |