Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure . |
| 32 | ‘ Not particularly , and I 'll thank you in the future not to be telling men it 's OK to come into my room . |
| 33 | The subjects soon to be considered by the committee include sexual harassment , Inns ' scholarships , pupillage complaints and court dress . |
| 34 | The drafter may wish stipulations not to be " of the essence " , or to avoid any possible dispute about the consequences of a failure to perform . |
| 35 | Second , there was a marked trend for ( female ) referrals by GPs subsequently considered to be primarily about social relationships not to be sectioned . |
| 36 | Some 80,000 customers bought cards from us last year , and even with a 60p average unit price , this is turnover not to be sneered at . |
| 37 | Donna Landry believes that the poem ’ … presents an iconography of paternal despotism and daughterly humiliation scarcely to be met with elsewhere in eighteenth-century verse' [ Landry , 103 ] . |
| 38 | Meanwhile Bartley removed the passenger door lock , used its serial number to buy an ignition key from the garage 's parts department and drove the car away to be ringed . |
| 39 | Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm sick as a parrot not to be standing , ’ said Nigel . |
| 41 | Brouhaha not to be confused with the Merseyside-inspired Brouhaha Festival being held in Budapest this year are staging a play about that most British of talking-points , the weather . |
| 42 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 43 | The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one . |
| 44 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 45 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 46 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 47 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 48 | But these are technical considerations not to be dwelt on here . |
| 49 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 50 | A year later , however , he warned his president not to be misled by Wilson 's apparent reluctance to stay East of Suez . |
| 51 | He was , it seems , familiar enough with the nature of lesbians and gay oppression not to be surprised or swayed by this , but many of his colleagues in the Labour Party were horrified . |
| 52 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 53 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 54 | Mailing designs home to be printed on samples sewn by his mum , Wells made a start in sports couture . |
| 55 | At odds of 500-1 , Terimon became the longest-priced horse ever to be placed in the Epsom Classic . |
| 56 | I think er the supporters like to be er looked after by the sort of their own people rather than er the the police force . |
| 57 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 58 | There 's undoubtedly a great deal still to be uncovered about the behaviour of Europe 's rarer species of bats , but even its common ones have secrets . |
| 59 | ICE HOCKEY : Barring a miracle , the National Hockey League 's 75th season is over , with the last 30 games of the schedule and the Stanley Cup play-offs still to be played . |
| 60 | Having won 15 of the rally 's 33 special stages , Biasion became world champion with the Ivory Coast and British rallies still to be run in a season spanning 13 events . |