Example sentences of "[pron] to be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) seems to want everything to be centrally determined and his speech reflected the dying echoes of the old-style centralised Labour party that we all knew and , at one stage , loved in our way . |
| 3 | ‘ How is one to be decently clothed when one must hand over sixteen coupons for a coat and five for a pair of shoes ? |
| 4 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 5 | Keep it light and sometimes when things are not as clear as you would like them to be just trust and give the remedy you judge to be nearest . |
| 6 | The University accepts no liability for loss arising from the failure of electricity , heating systems , water supplies , fire , flooding or for any other cause beyond its reasonable control which may cause the University 's premises or part of them to be temporarily closed or the booking to be interrupted , interfered with or cancelled . |
| 7 | Teachers had to learn to accept children 's idiosyncratic ideas , even those which appeared to them to be wholly misconceived or ridiculous . |
| 8 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 9 | Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs . |
| 10 | Or are they to be softly stretched and so angled that they curve upwards and over before descending silently as in Fokine 's Les Sylphides ? |
| 11 | This close liaison with the NID was obviously liable to be misunderstood within the ranks of the BDDA so that is not surprising to find the BDDA 's annual report for 1925 explaining that : The executive committee wish it to be clearly understood that the NID is not antagonistic but rather complementary to our own Association . |
| 12 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 13 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 14 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 15 | One might have expected it to be either suffocated or swallowed up . |
| 16 | Oddly enough , production problems first time around on this episode , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ , occasioned it to be completely remounted and rerecorded between Episodes Three and Four , the only time this has happened in Doctor Who 's entire history aside from the remount of the pilot ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 17 | When Doyle located lot 18 , and found it to be totally overgrown and neglected , there was a man working on a neighbouring patch , and Doyle smiled at him as he walked past . |
| 18 | 1815 " The Meeting concieving it to be highly usefull that the Road from Portaskaig should be rendered complete , do willingly Stent themselves in the sum here stated . " |
| 19 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 20 | This work seems to us to be truly depraving and corrupting unlike some sex films which offend solely on grounds of impropriety . |