Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some computers provide an extra field in the descriptor to specify the number of characters in the string still to be processed , and this would be decremented by the " Increment descriptor " instruction . |
| 32 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 33 | He has the confidence simply to be himself . |
| 34 | He became mayor again after the war only to be dismissed by a British officer of the occupying forces , who found him as awkward to deal with as the Nazis had . |
| 35 | Our evidence points to the need both to be sensitive to the many different recipients of public policy and their potentially different views on its effects , and to the need to understand the meaning , to those on the receiving end , of actions taken in the name of public policy . |
| 36 | And on Saturday , he contacted the UN only to be greeted with an answering machine . |
| 37 | It would be a neat trick of fate if he survived the plasma energy weapons of the platforms only to be burned to a crisp because the pod entered the upper atmosphere of Tarvaras at the incorrect angle . |
| 38 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 39 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 40 | So we need to identify to what extent the o the quotes problem erm is cau is , is skewing the figures primarily to be able to get a forecast view of , okay what 's the overtime likely to do over the year ? |
| 41 | One of the problems still to be solved is the production of the right formulation to keep the BTI near the surface where anopheline larvae generally feed . |
| 42 | Dr R.B. Smith adopts this criterion in his study of West Riding society in the 1530s , but for the 1520s , albeit the genuinely hard cases ( including one assessment as low as £1 per annum ) were few and far between , men of £5 or more per annum tended on the whole either to be designated gentlemen or else can be linked with gentry families . |
| 43 | As they emerged through the smoke and chaos , with uniforms shredded and faces blackened , they were taken by their countrymen defending the fort outside to be that most feared of enemies — French African troops — and were relentlessly mown down . |
| 44 | The polytechnic soon to be known as the University of Teesside has been granted the right by the Council for National Academic Awards . |
| 45 | Stung , Branagh resisted the criticism only to be told : ‘ It 's what you pay me for do it again . ’ |
| 46 | Distinctly the minority view is that which allows laughter at both tales to be free of moral implications and which thus allows the tales genuinely to be fun — which would not , of course , imply that the two tales are vacuous exercises aimed at giving pleasure alone . |
| 47 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 48 | Vice-captain Ashley Metcalfe arrived at the ground only to be told by skipper Martyn Moxon that he would not be in the side against Somerset . |
| 49 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 50 | A serious escalation in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the end of April and in early May was accompanied by accusations from the Armenian leadership that the Soviet authorities were openly siding with the Azerbaijanis , as a reward for Azerbaijan 's decision the week before to be party to the new Union Treaty , and as punishment for Armenia 's independence drive . |
| 51 | He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again . |
| 52 | This suggests that the isotopic signature of lava from early in an eruption is a predictor of the volume still to be erupted . |
| 53 | In this we will meet the desires of your good father , who has been gracious enough to give permission for my suit and endow his future son with the means withal to be worthy of your hand . |
| 54 | Environmental groups commented that the report was premature , with the long-term effects on health and the environment yet to be assessed . |
| 55 | Before she reached it , she wanted everything that had happened in the past finally to be put behind her . |
| 56 | The sequel now to be seen at Basingstoke involves the period in Helen 's life when Annie marries . |
| 57 | The road from Silchester to Durobrivae and includes Dorchester-on-Thames , Alchester , Towcester and Irchester , assuming there is a gap in the road yet to be filled between the last two places . |
| 58 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 59 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 60 | But neither were the games ever to be the same . |