Example sentences of "[noun] to be " in BNC.

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1 Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) .
2 Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’
3 Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them .
4 Richard does n't have the manners to be a staff officer .
5 The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand .
6 ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) .
7 Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims .
8 These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order .
9 I became exceedingly religious and consequently anxious to know whether there was any good ground for supposing religion to be true .
10 Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be .
11 Thus , it is quite possible in Northern Ireland for an ethnic Catholic to be a non-believer , or conversely for an ( English ) outsider who is an adherent of the Catholic religion to be categorized as non-Catholic .
12 But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted .
13 In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam .
14 God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated .
15 However , there are a number of risks to be considered by even the most competent pilot , and these are outside the pilot 's control once the cloud climb has been started .
16 The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts .
17 This will involve identifying the liabilities and risks to be assumed and the state of the assets being acquired .
18 It is essential to ensure that the risks to be covered by the insurance policy are sufficient to cover the main eventualities .
19 The tenant 's surveyor should be consulted to advise on the risks to be covered should any doubt exist .
20 However , such friendship only opens the door ; thereafter the hard reality of the benefits to be gained and the risks to be run will take over .
21 One of the first Japanese arts to be recognised in the West was jiu jitsu , ‘ the art of flexibility ’ .
22 However , it must be pointed out that what he has consistently proposed does not require the arts to be subjected to ‘ scientific or quasi-scientific ’ forms of measurement .
23 The further development of current techniques for measuring protein synthesis , in vivo , will be required to allow the contribution of each cell type to the rate of protein synthesis in the whole biopsy to be determined .
24 Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted .
25 Electronic News hears that DEC has decided on the name Alpha AXP for the VAX successors to be built around the new chip .
26 There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med .
27 Does the application you have identified have the right characteristics to be a successful DIP system ?
28 There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone .
29 However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier .
30 Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti .
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