Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 The whole raison d'être of these devices and software is to enable copy-protection to be overcome .
2 The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career .
3 Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee .
4 Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph .
5 I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it .
6 Price recommends all caterers to not only determine the micron thickness when looking at silver-plated cutlery , but also to ask for this to be specified on the invoice .
7 It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts .
8 Such expansions of police power were forecast by E. P. Thompson ( 1980 ) , who considered this to be a period which has no equal .
9 I have tried to sketch in outline why I think this to be wrong .
10 You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it .
11 I found this to be the case when trying to replace a ballcock valve washer in a hot water tank in a very narrow airing cupboard .
12 How is this to be done .
13 It is n't uncommon for a record contract to allow for a royalty increase of I per cent throughout each year of the agreement , and for this to be raised once certain sales figures have been reached ( commonly , this might be for gold and platinum status albums ) .
14 It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain .
15 Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so .
16 I believe this to be indecent and to add to the already indecent burden women are having to bear . ’
17 PAYMENT FOR ARTICLES Payments or offers of payment for stories , pictures or information should not be made to witnesses or potential witnesses in current criminal proceedings or to people engaged in crime or their associates except where the material concerned ought to be published in the public interest , and the payment is necessary to enable this to be done .
18 He took this to be a truth ‘ so near and obvious to the mind , that a man need only open his eyes to see ’ it .
19 For this to be effective there was a need for managers .
20 I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going .
21 Yet we know this to be untrue .
22 I believe this to be most important if we are to have rational investment decisions and efficient allocations of resources .
23 The format of the church funeral service allows this to be done in a recognized , public , orderly and time-limited way .
24 There was , however , this to be said : there had been political involvement under Miall in the 1840s but this had been to achieve a narrow , sectarian goal — disestablishment .
25 Was this to be regarded as a compliment or a criticism ?
26 Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself .
27 With a number of stocks going ex-dividend , market-makers estimated the combined effect of this to be a 6½ point knock to the Footsie .
28 This , however , needs fuel with a low sulphur content , and as European Community regulations call for this to be progressively reduced , the oil industry is having to undertake multi-million pound capital investment programmes .
29 She pledged that the Government would safeguard those that did not opt for trust status , but she expected this to be a minority .
30 The CEGB revealed that ’ all fossil fuelled stations built since the formation of the CEGB were subject to the condition that space must be left for the later provision of sulphur removal equipment should the Secretary of State require this to be fitted .
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