Example sentences of "they [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , yeah when we used to bring them home to be slaughtered on the Monday , you see . |
| 32 | For these to be effective the patient would need to practise them repeatedly to be able to bring about fairly rapid relaxation when tense feelings were beginning to occur . |
| 33 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 34 | After the discovery of consignments of hospital waste , including syringes and blood bags , in a quarry rubbish tip in eastern France , French customs officers intercepted at least 20 German trucks , and found them also to be carrying hospital waste , sometimes mixed with ordinary domestic rubbish . |
| 35 | So , when I wanted to grow slightly tender plants in my none-too-mild Midlands garden , I decided to bring them up to be as tough as possible . |
| 36 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 37 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 38 | On the night before they took them out to be shot . |
| 39 | He says dozens of children are injured in accidents on the inflatable castles , and he wants firms that hire them out to be licenced . |
| 40 | If Canada were to meet the logistical and commercial demands of the organisers , ought they not to be seriously considered ? |
| 41 | But I think good parents need the perspective which allows them sometimes to be selfish . |
| 42 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 43 | Leave them there to be culled ? |
| 44 | Show them how to be concise when they may have only minutes or even seconds to put over their viewpoint . |
| 45 | ‘ Someone should teach them how to be gracious , how to accept compliments prettily , how never to wear a grey suit to a party however bored one is with designing clothes . ’ |
| 46 | Cohesive markers are not always necessary , but where you find sentences without evident markers , it may be useful to inspect them closely to be certain that the relationship with the preceding sentence is sufficiently clear . |
| 47 | It is perhaps not surprising that when a Christian mob destroyed the synagogue in Clermont , in the aftermath of an outrage committed on a Jewish convert to Christianity , Avitus did nothing to protect the Jews , but used the incident to force them either to be baptized or to leave the city . |