Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 2 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 3 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 4 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 5 | Pray that God would inspire leaders to be bold and also to be flexible in the area of finances . |
| 6 | Canon Elvy encourages the churches to respect European values and also to be careful in distinguishing between the terms ‘ communication ’ , ‘ publicity ’ , ‘ image-building ’ and ‘ information ’ . |
| 7 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 8 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 9 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |
| 10 | At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear . |
| 11 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 12 | To have Midnight lying almost above her head and yet to be incapable of protecting him , or even taking the water he needed , was a kind of torment . |
| 13 | His headmaster , ( Sir ) Cyril Norwood [ q.v. ] , had given him two pieces of advice : to answer all letters by return of post , and never to be afraid of unpopularity . |
| 14 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 15 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |
| 16 | ‘ And you are blind , Fernando Serra , not totally but enough to be choosy about what you do see . |
| 17 | I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father . |
| 18 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 19 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 20 | But then to be good at a sport , really good I mean , you have to learn how to do what you are doing naturally in the best way possible . |
| 21 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 22 | This is just one example of many which encourages all of us to think about the past or the future — but never to be aware of the present . |