Example sentences of "to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The myths that Barthes refers to are contemporary and different from the myths that interest the anthropologist . |
| 32 | The other market for CICS/2 may do something — the company hopes to sell it to are those businesses ‘ upsizing ’ their applications . |
| 33 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 34 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 35 | The ‘ rights ’ she is referring to are , she would suggest , rights to ‘ innocence ’ , and the ‘ security ’ of moral certainty . |
| 36 | An accurate cross-reference can only be written when the exact co-ordinates of the entry cross-referred to are known . |
| 37 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 38 | Two we wish to draw attention to are most easily discussed in symbolic terms . |
| 39 | If we think of natural and explicit answers to the question of what caused something , what we come to are items like the weight of a thing , or its colour , hardness , shape , nearness , transparency , weakness , speed , pitch , temperature , chemical constitution , positive charge , protein content , molecular structure , or spin . |
| 40 | The differences between disciplines which Taylor refers to are compounded by differences between sectors , institutions and even departments . |
| 41 | Hence the normality of 42 when the dogs referred to are of opposite sexes can not be used as evidence against the existence of two senses of dog , since it can be fully accounted for by claiming that only the general sense is operative . |
| 42 | But most of the factors this account points to are real and important , as we shall now detail . |
| 43 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 44 | Right there are two kinds of courts that policemen , well there 's several kinds of court , but the main courts that policemen go to are a magistrate 's court where there is what 's known as , they are magistrates or JPs , Justice of the Peace , and they sit there and you have to give evidence . |
| 45 | The people in prison are the only people you have — whatever problems you 've got , you know the only people you can talk to are the women in prison . |
| 46 | In French elles is used only when all the persons or things referred to are feminine ; if one or more persons or things in a group are masculine the form used is ils , even if the feminine referents outnumber the masculine ones . |
| 47 | The people you dealt the guns to are findable . |
| 48 | In the above examples , the topics referred to are certain meanings , and meanings , as we saw , do not qualify as ontological existents in any case . |
| 49 | We 're not going back to are we ? |
| 50 | What we cut away to are miners ' retaliatory attempts to help their colleagues . |
| 51 | Some good companies to write to are Badger , De Vilbis , Rotring , and Morris & Ingram . |
| 52 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 53 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 54 | For example , the choice of a passive rather than an active is influenced both by whether the things referred to are animate or inanimate and by what the basic theme of the speaker 's current discourse currently is ( Harris , 1977 ; 1978 ) . |
| 55 | Major and minor chords of four notes arranged thus , chromatically from to are all possible and effective . |
| 56 | ‘ But , given a level playing field , we believe that the work commitments we are agreeing to are as great as can be justified in commercial terms , and hope that this is recognised by Whitehall . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’ |
| 58 | The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed . |
| 59 | Lothian Regional Council considers that the findings referred to are unreliable and based on false or unsound interpretations of Structure Plan policies and the nature of the land supply . |
| 60 | The objects or concepts referred to are known as signs or the signified , while the words ( written or spoken ) are called signifiers . |