Example sentences of "[conj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , he must come to terms with a new awareness of what he has previously accepted , perhaps without thinking , which under the intense microscope of social enquiry may well seem to verge on the ludicrous or to be morally indefensible . |
| 2 | But if attempts to produce this concrete research are doomed to neglect or derision or to be defined as ‘ espionage ’ , then what can be achieved ? |
| 3 | This afternoon in the market she negotiated the amendment of ‘ Brokkoli ’ on a hand-written sign by agreeing to buy two pounds of the vegetable — or to be precise , flower used as a vegetable . |
| 4 | Some older people may want to move to obtain more suitable housing or to be nearer their children or brothers or sisters . |
| 5 | Further studies , the researchers believe , should concentrate on pregnant women known to have a zinc deficiency or to be at risk from problems during labour . |
| 6 | ‘ What is more useful in art , to be bound up with mankind and the world , or to be wary of it ? ’ |
| 7 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 8 | The Hic Mulier figure ( an abstraction ) is a vehicle for a variety of defences of the transvestite , radical and conservative , and there is no good reason , given the genre , to privilege the one over the others as more truthful , more sincere , more representative , or to be dismayed that some of these arguments are incompatible with each other . |
| 9 | The progress of sport as a ‘ commodity ’ either to be sold to the media in its own right or to be used in order to sell other products was slower and more halting than might be imagined . |
| 10 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 11 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 12 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out , severely , that he would be needed , either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class , or possibly both . |
| 13 | Olives are grown either to eat or to be made into olive oil . |
| 14 | So this is an odd time to let the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade wither , or to be thinking of dismantling the post-1945 multilateral trading system in favour of a slide to managed trade and protection . |
| 15 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 16 | do they want to be part of the mystique of the century of the common man or to be an institutional monarchy ; to ride , as it were , in a glass coach or on bicycles ; to provide the tabloids with a running serial or to live simply and unaffectedly among their subjects like the Dutch and Scandinavian royal families . |
| 17 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 18 | One chooses : to be a depressive or to be creative . |
| 19 | They do not need advice on how to gain similar wealth abroad , or to be told that the prospect of working on charities ' accounts for lower fees is not so abhorrent . |
| 20 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 21 | But in general people living in residential homes were less likely than others either to die in , or to be admitted to , hospital during the last year of their lives . |
| 22 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 23 | In terms of the analogies we have used so far , the Indian traditions are said to orbit around a different sun , or to be climbing a different mountain — or to identify with a family of monsters in the loch quite different from the one followed by the Near Eastern religions . |
| 24 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 25 | Behaviour is constantly revealed as imitative of projected stereotypes or to be the result of disguise . |
| 26 | This gives time for water to drain away or to be picked up by wet vacuum . |
| 27 | How can we be ‘ blessed ’ or ‘ happy ’ , if we have also to be humbled as ‘ the poor in spirit ’ , or to mourn , or to be meek , or to ‘ hunger and thirst for righteousness ’ ? |
| 28 | A sample of urine is usually needed either for simple testing in the clinic or to be sent off to the laboratory for more sophisticated tests . |
| 29 | This did not require proof of any wrongdoing and involved the defendant undertaking , on pain of a financial penalty , either to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour , depending on how the matter was treated by the magistrates . |
| 30 | The retention ratio system ensured that a large proportion of these receipts remained in these two republics , either to be used directly by the exporting enterprises or to be sold to other enterprises in the same republic . |