Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or to be exact , Christianity does not but religions of all kinds do . |
| 32 | Although a rather overlooked statistical record , I think in the light of all the fuss ( and rightly so ) made of Hadlee and Kapil Dev taking 400 wickets some praise for Ian in dismissing 500 opponents ( or to be exact 501 ) in 100 Tests is worthy of appreciation and note . |
| 33 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 34 | Most people in Islington , councillors included , were unlikely to have read The Fish Report or to be aware of the arguments put forward in it . |
| 35 | Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific . |
| 36 | Retarded development , disturbed patterns of behaviour , inability to form relationships or to be self-sufficient have been seen as resulting from disease or physiological abnormality . |
| 37 | Moreover the baked bread tends to collapse on cooling or to be uncooked in the centre . |
| 38 | One chooses : to be a depressive or to be creative . |
| 39 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |
| 40 | ‘ What is more useful in art , to be bound up with mankind and the world , or to be wary of it ? ’ |
| 41 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 42 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 43 | They may sit around watching their child play but only say something when the child starts to misbehave ; injunctions not to do something or to be careful or not to make so much noise focus on control issues only . |
| 44 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 45 | The aim should be to use clear and attractive signs containing the minimum amount of information to enable the user to find his way or to be able to use a given tool or resource . |
| 46 | An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA . |
| 47 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 48 | It is generally recognised at Community level that it is both inequitable and contrary to the objectives of a single market for certain firms in the Community to be immune from the commercial benefits and burdens of being taken over or to be able artificially to create methods to defend themselves from takeovers , while firms from other member states remain vulnerable . |
| 49 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 50 | The interventions of Sparta outside her borders after the 470s were erratic : she seems not to be able to make her mind up whether to be an imperialist power or to be Little Sparta . |
| 51 | She looked at Conradin 's white face , and waited for him to cry or to be angry . |
| 52 | This afternoon in the market she negotiated the amendment of ‘ Brokkoli ’ on a hand-written sign by agreeing to buy two pounds of the vegetable — or to be precise , flower used as a vegetable . |
| 53 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 54 | Paris — or to be precise , the Paris made up of Montparnasse , St Germain and the Mouffetard — was like a party : meeting someone on the street in that quadrant did not constitute a pickup . |
| 55 | Rather than missing lovers there were missing bodies , or to be precise one missing body — and a lot of missing loot . |
| 56 | The perlocution : to undermine the sergeant 's authority , or to be cheeky , or to escape the duty of cleaning the boots . |
| 57 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |
| 58 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 59 | This situation can be prevented by being prepared to release immediately if things start to go wrong , or by being ready to stop the wing coming up suddenly . |
| 60 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |