Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When manager Victor Contini judges that the moment is right , the haunch is brought down to be skinned , boned , cured and thinly sliced like Parma ham . |
| 2 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 3 | The letter was marked down to be followed up ; the death sentence was the likely result . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 5 | Mickey had a ramp with pea sized objects rolling down to be dealt a mighty blow from a spring loaded mallet . |
| 6 | Liverpool came back from 2-0 down to be level at the break thanks to Jan Molby 's penalty and McManaman 's tap-in . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , it 's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 9 | The views are still tremendous in the Lakes , but sitting down to be surrounded by two or three belligerent sheep whose main occupation in life is to steal my cheese and pickle sandwich is about the best way of spoiling a good day out . |
| 10 | The sets that Were built showed another advantage of conservatism in that , despite some initial trouble with 60MW sets , they settled down to be more reliable than the engineers counted on . |
| 11 | Paul Maynard , skipping an all Essex County rink of Andrew Blake , Steve Cooper and Andrew Skilbeck , had fought back from 7–1 and 18–10 down to be two shots ahead . |
| 12 | Their readers could not get enough of Diana ; her face was on every magazine cover , every aspect of her life attracted comment and anyone who had ever known her was tracked down to be interviewed by the voracious media . |
| 13 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 14 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 15 | Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes ? |
| 16 | She locked her car , locked the doors of the house and settled down to be by herself . |
| 17 | ‘ I came down to be warmed by the fire . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Come down to be warm by the fire , indeed ! |
| 19 | Sipping her drink , she settled down to be quiet , and tried very hard not to be so aware of Feargal so close beside her . |
| 20 | Labour Members like the idea that one can formulate the blueprint in Brussels and hand it down to be followed in every corner of the Community . |
| 21 | He knew what blow had knocked proud Lucifer , the first angel , out of the sky and hurtled him down to be the founder of Hell . |
| 22 | ‘ Romantic , ’ said Zeinab , as if she was taking the word down to be used in evidence . |
| 23 | Do you have to say an N two would you round up or round down to be sure ? |
| 24 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 25 | The second round ties of the Yorkshire Cup are down to be played this Saturday a had kept open but when Harrogate were hoping to entertain Cambridge University for their first visit to Claro Road . |
| 26 | The second round ties of the Yorkshire Cup are down to be played this Saturday a had kept open but when Harrogate were hoping to entertain Cambridge University for their first visit to Claro Road . |
| 27 | But it 's down to be getting moved . |
| 28 | You might , yeah , the trouble is it 's got ta match down to be exact or |
| 29 | The car would of slowly slowed down to be at the speed that the engine |
| 30 | On the contrary ; corduroy and other imitation velvets , like velour and velveteen , were considered all along to be false finery , puffed up and pompous . |