Example sentences of "to [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 2 | He lives for us , we can feel him kicking inside the idea 's belly , because the bridge-builder who does no bridge-building is vitalized by the nobody to be and nowhere to go of Dostoevsky 's inexhaustible inventive fascination . |
| 3 | An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start . |
| 4 | It is easy to understand how irksome that condition has been felt to be and how strong has been the temptation to try to tamper with it . |
| 5 | He was once asked what he considered the function of a chairman to be and he gave a three-part answer : |
| 6 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 7 | Everything is where you 'd like it to be and the instruments , in particular , cram a wealth of information to one well-packaged and easily read display . |
| 8 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 9 | He told her everything he knew , and made sure she understood where to be and at what time , talking with the speed of true exhaustion and repeating himself . |
| 10 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 11 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 12 | It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm . |
| 13 | The authority of the verderers , like that of the coroners , had ended with the previous reign , so the king sent out orders to the sheriffs to make arrangements for the election of ‘ as many verderers as there ought to be and used to be ’ in nineteen forests south of Trent , and in Sherwood Forest north of it , ‘ as no verderer is as yet elected therein by command of the King , |
| 14 | Models are not the real thing , and what looked like the something from the future world of Dan Dare on the cover of the new Eagle comic was to be and feel quite a different slab of concrete . |
| 15 | The use of the Bosch injector pump and having the head drilled for heater plugs is as good as this engine is going to be and , as such is a reasonable conversion , in relation to the cost . |
| 16 | For mums to be and new mums . |
| 17 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 18 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 19 | I forget where I 'm supposed to be and what I 've done the day before and whose round it is … ’ |
| 20 | to be and where I am ; |
| 21 | It was alleged then that although the names of the judges were not announced until after the designs were submitted , some architects knew who they were to be and had pointed their designs towards them . |
| 22 | The teacher 's function is to decide what these chains are to be and to take steps to establish them as permanent ways of responding . |
| 23 | He , or she , finds that the reality of the subject is not what he desired it to be and that he can not even prove its basic tenets . |
| 24 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 25 | The more these blueprints exercise their influence , the less choice there seems to be and the more a particular course of action feels inevitable — a common experience for many people in their choice of partner . |
| 26 | Through events of different kinds we are likely to be put in touch with aspects of ourselves which previously have been overlooked — we are given a jolt , and have to make a bridge between how things used to be and how they threatened . |
| 27 | It will depend to some extent on the net costs of searching — the lower the search costs , the higher the reservation wage is likely to be and , therefore , the longer the spell of unemployment . |
| 28 | So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old . |
| 29 | The regime established under the European Convention is able to be and in fact is of a totally different order of effectiveness — this for two reasons : |
| 30 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |