Example sentences of "and [prep] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were at an age when one often does not like eating very much ; and the Greeks , a poor race with memories of starvation , like their children to be well fed , and to be seen to be well fed . |
| 2 | Teachers need to feel , and to be seen to be , in control . |
| 3 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 4 | It may be preferably for any payments to be payable to the purchaser and to be stated to be adjustments to the purchase price . |
| 5 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |