Example sentences of "[art] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of this year 's show is the group of works by Samuel Palmer , apparently the largest to be offered by any gallery for twenty-five years . |
| 2 | We moved from the orchard taking the prisoners with us and leaving the wounded to be taken to the rear . |
| 3 | According to unofficial Armenian reports at least 17 Armenian villagers were killed and over a hundred wounded , and the Armenian authorities alleged that the troops were refusing to allow the wounded to be evacuated for medical treatment . |
| 4 | And he thought , I must n't have these thoughts , I have no status here , I have n't even got the right to be jealous ! |
| 5 | He was the last missioner to the deaf to be Chairman of the BDA , and it is virtually certain that he was the last hearing person to hold this office . |
| 6 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 7 | It 's not enough for the rich to be rich , they have to boast about their perks and fiddles and scams as well . |
| 8 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 9 | The Unemployment Act 1934 introduced a national assistance scheme for the unemployed to be managed by the Unemployment Assistance Board under the direction of the Minister of Labour under which allowances became payable to assist unemployed persons . |
| 10 | Blandin was both the first woman and the first Green president of a regional council and at 39 was the youngest to be elected . |
| 11 | At 21 months , little Mirza is the youngest to be brought here from the mortar attacks and shelling around Sarajevo . |
| 12 | There was no point in delay , nor any in waiting until darkness ; the relief should be seen by the English to be effected and effective . |
| 13 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 14 | In just under a month 's time , Saturday June the fourteenth to be precise , the university will be holding its Silver Jubilee Open Day . |
| 15 | Display of passions , congratulation and excitement between men on the pitch , otherwise considered by the British to be dangerously continental ( see xenophobia ) , or , more generally , deviant ( see opera , innocent looks , sex ban and drooling ) . |
| 16 | The ‘ blurb ’ before the main articles has consistently been thought by the British to be too ‘ general ’ and without sufficient specific meaning to merit much attention . |
| 17 | Other areas can also be quoted , like Winchelsea in Sussex , which was destroyed by storms and the French to be refounded in 1288 by Edward I on a hill nearby . |
| 18 | B is the keenest to be liked , socially most adept , but easy to dominate . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Yusuf caused the heads of the slain to be cut off and piled in heaps , from the top of which his muezzins called the faithful to prayer . |
| 20 | Right to buy for the old to be extended |
| 21 | After any major change it is important to give oneself some moratorium — suspend some activities — to allow feelings concerned with the loss of the old to be lived through . |
| 22 | In 1860 he won the headmaster 's poetry prize with ‘ The Escorial ’ ; another schoolboy poem appeared in February 1863 in Once a Week , one of the few to be published during his lifetime . |
| 23 | The liquid within them , moving over their sensitive inside surface , enabled the proto-fish to be aware of its posture in the water . |
| 24 | For example , if the search is for the string chess , h is the 3rd bit of the 26 to be set , so follow the 3rd pointer of the 10 element array to reach the ‘ h ’ node on the level below , and so on until the entire string is found , at the 2nd ‘ s ’ node , where the word flag is set . |
| 25 | The issue was of far greater importance to Japan than to Russia , yet the Tsar and most of his ministers expected the Japanese to be easily intimidated . |
| 26 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 27 | This is reflected in the rule that statements by the accused to be admissible must have been made voluntarily . |
| 28 | For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’ |
| 29 | As the present case shows , however , there are other matters to be considered , the most important of which is proof : how is the identity of the accused to be established at trial in the absence of any out-of-court identification ? |
| 30 | However , in Fagan the court held the accused to be guilty when he inadvertently parked his car on a policeman 's foot , realised what he had done , and refused to drive off . |