Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 2 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 3 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 4 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 5 | Regis equalled Christie 's 20.09sec British record as he clung on to be second behind America 's Mike Marsh . |
| 6 | These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level , which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable . |
| 7 | ‘ As to the outside world , I now take just sufficient interest in what goes on to be thankful that , though I am deaf , I can vote . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 9 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 10 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 11 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 12 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 13 | Several had considered maths or engineering , or both ; maths was generally dismissed as ‘ too theoretical ’ , while engineering was dismissed as ‘ too applied ’ : physics was held to be the perfect happy medium — applied enough to be ‘ relevant ’ ( a favourite adjective amongst both the science and the arts students ) , but theoretical enough to be stimulating and demanding . |
| 14 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 15 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 16 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |
| 17 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 18 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 19 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |
| 20 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 21 | By contrast , particular skills tend only to be identified by those who have specialized by method of intervention ( for example , marital counselling ) or by client sub-group ( for example , fostering and adoption ) . |
| 22 | The shortcomings of the JIC and the secret agencies tend only to be exposed after the kind of failure they exist to prevent . |
| 23 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 24 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 25 | He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge . |
| 26 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 27 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 28 | Is it the moment of swallowing , the oscillation between danger and salvation , when we imagine ourselves miraculously rescued from the peril of drowning only to be cast into the peril of being eaten alive ? |
| 29 | Each side panel can also be gathered in to be used as a doorway . |
| 30 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |