Example sentences of "to be [adj] [conj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 2 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 3 | The Ego wants a loving relationship with the sole aim of feeling ‘ special ’ to someone — not from a desire to be loving and to be truly intimate . |
| 4 | Honourable but brief mentions must also go to Annie Lennox and Sinead O'Connor , for their uncompromising attitudes , bravery , outspokenness , passionate commitment to their music and because they prove it 's OK to be strong and to be vulnerable . |
| 5 | It is no good the Minister , whenever he is found to be wanting and to be wrong , starting to hurl abuse across the Chamber or making allegations that have absolutely no substance . |
| 6 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 7 | What that points to , minimally , is a developmental process in which students are enabled to be critical and to be self-critical in an informed way . |
| 8 | I do not want matriarchy to replace patriarchy as an interim measure because I retain unshakeable faith in women 's ability to organize , to be caring and to be , just in so many ways , superior to men . |
| 9 | The Enterprise Centre 's staff development activities aim to be innovative and to be both proactive and reactive . |
| 10 | ‘ When I go to a party I feel there 's an expectation for me to be witty and to be a ‘ party gal ’ , says my friend Alison . |
| 11 | ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said . |
| 12 | What I want , would like to see , and I think is in your interest and the public 's interest is actually to , to not just be responding but to be , to be reactive but to be pro-active , and to be going out onto the streets as it were . |
| 13 | To be poor and to be honest , especially with a young girl , is the hardest struggle of all . ’ |
| 14 | Orwell predicted : ‘ Proletarian literature … is n't likely to be permanent or to be the beginning of a new age in literature … capitalism is disappearing . |
| 15 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 16 | I think that the changes in the health service are increasingly being understood to be welcome and to be providing a better health service for the future . |
| 17 | The Government and the forces of law and order have to be seen to be concerned and to be effective . |
| 18 | The Government and the forces of law and order have to be seen to be concerned and to be effective . |
| 19 | ‘ It is better to be beautiful than to be good . ’ |
| 20 | And I know you to be beautiful and to be most worthy to be my wife . |
| 21 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 22 | This will depend on the size of the bird — you want it to be comfortable and to be able to move its legs , but you also want to keep an untrained bird under firm control . |
| 23 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 24 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |