Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level , which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 4 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 5 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 11 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The shortcomings of the JIC and the secret agencies tend only to be exposed after the kind of failure they exist to prevent . |
| 15 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge . |
| 18 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 19 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | The UK Consumer 's Association has called for the establishment of an EC minimum requirement for minerals in " mineral water " , after a study of 29 popular brands found most to be virtually devoid of minerals . |
| 22 | In other words , while Tillich maintains that when finite particulars are given the status of ultimacy it is detrimental to true religion and a form of demonization , Gandhi insists that symbols which become fetishes are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 23 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 24 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 25 | But no doubt some of the original Hooligans — ‘ instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried ’ as Baden-Powell had somewhat indelicately described the goal of reclamation — were buried alongside them , remembered only in the writings and memoirs of youth workers which act as their tombstones . |
| 26 | She was just a young female human being , fit only to be somebody 's cousin or aunt . |
| 27 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 28 | Thus , for basic civic rights like not being enslaved or imprisoned without trial , people should need only to be people . |
| 29 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 30 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |