Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 've just been back and checked just to be sure , ’ his mate added . |
| 2 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 3 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 4 | We might try to find such a conceptual unity by making the distinction between sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning , and hope then to be able to equate semantics with the study of sentence-meaning and pragmatics with the study of utterance-meaning . |
| 5 | The literature in this area is fragmentary and tends either to be definitional or descriptive . |
| 6 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 7 | This reduction in pleural thickening could also be seen on the chest x ray ( Fig 5 ) making it very likely that the pleural thickening noted initially in October 1990 and thought then to be unimportant was neoplastic from the outset . |
| 8 | Charlie smiled as he placed his frozen fingers round the hot mug and sipped slowly to be sure that the simple pleasure lasted . |