Example sentences of "and to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 2 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 3 | Your first Equity card will be a provisional one ; to become a full member you need to have worked for at least 30 weeks , not necessarily consecutively , Nevertheless , it 's only realistic to assume that you may face longish periods of unemployment and to be prepared to deal with this constructively . |
| 4 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 5 | To have ideas like this one taken seriously and to be treated with respect is surely a reasonable request . |
| 6 | ‘ Terrible , ’ he told them — and to be fair it was entirely without relish that he spoke . |
| 7 | In these violent thermals it is possible to be flying with a good margin of speed at one moment and to be falling with virtually no speed the next . |
| 8 | It is impossible for any glider pilot to make a high cloud climb and to be sure of his position . |
| 9 | You need to be able to get into the turn quickly and accurately , and to be flying within a few knots of the pre-stall buffet . |
| 10 | The lines made by the two dancers together must always have room to breathe and to be seen separately if the whole design is to flow . |
| 11 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 12 | Needs human capacity and to be treated with respect . |
| 13 | ‘ Theory ’ , to be intellectually respectable , has to be presented as such , and to be a product of the academy , not of the amorphous institution of literature . |
| 14 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 15 | To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index . |
| 16 | The Panel wants to be the competent authority and to be explicitly designated as such . |
| 17 | Trafalgar House , BR 's favoured partner , is reliably understood to have rejected the idea of building a terminal at Stratford and to be sticking to the final route chosen by BR . |
| 18 | These stories also demonstrate the need for policemen and women to be continually prepared for ‘ a big one ’ and to be ever vigilant , which lends further significance to some ‘ little crimes ’ . |
| 19 | Nutrients are still at a premium here , so the plants form an association with a fungus pezzizella ericae which enables the heather to have a higher nitrogen uptake and to be more resistant to elements of heavy metals found in the soil . |
| 20 | The SDP claimed to have its own tradition and style , and to be more governmentally orientated than the decentralized , almost anarchistic , community-based Liberals . |
| 21 | Extract from a letter received from a disabled resident at Sussexdown ‘ It really is a privilege to be in such a lovely place , and to be so well cared for , there ca n't , I 'm sure , be another Home like it in the whole of Britain . ’ |
| 22 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 23 | Ramsey cried to the Church to be itself ; to know that its being rests upon a death and an empty tomb ; and to be itself whether modern Britain will listen or close its ears . |
| 24 | But he saw the prayers of the Church as a living and fruitful tradition which threw up new ideas , some on reflection wrong or offending and to be rejected , others the seeds of devotion . |
| 25 | Sir Herbert suggested that Henderson , the leader of the Opposition , should be approached to join the National Party , which was not a National one at present : In short his attitude was to oppose any National Appeal and to be mischievous . |
| 26 | Suddenly , overpoweringly , she needed her mother , she needed to be taken in her mother 's arms , like a little child and to be held there . |
| 27 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 28 | The death of Kenyatta in 1978 , with no constitutional change accomplished , left the way open for Daniel Arap Moi to take over the presidency and to be confirmed in a national election as president within three months . |
| 29 | In an agricultural project farmers have to understand the potential benefits of the inputs ( say , fertiliser and seed ) financed by the project , to find them relevant , and to be sure that their produce will find a market , before committing themselves to participation . |
| 30 | The result is that major segments of the population — sometimes a majority , sometimes a minority — will continue to experience a sense of deprivation , and to be in permanent opposition to the government . |