Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 2 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 3 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm talking about liking people , liking them enough to be friends . |
| 5 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 6 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 7 | Last night you trusted me enough to be your first lover . |
| 8 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 9 | He should never be regarded as someone only to be approached when a prescription is required or when some serious breakdown in health occurs . |
| 10 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 11 | " So — am I not to be married after all ? " |
| 12 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 13 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 14 | This should be accurate enough for the findspot to be plotted on a map and for someone else to be able to find the location . |
| 15 | This thoroughly amiable writer had been assigned by Villard Books to present the U.S.P.G.A. Tour through the eyes of someone yet to be afflicted with a hardcore interest in the pro Tours . |
| 16 | Nor is the main character of yours likely to be a detective , of any sort . |
| 17 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 18 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 19 | Suffer me not to be separated . |
| 20 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 21 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Is that what you really want , Amy , for me not to be here ? ’ |
| 23 | It is impossible for me not to be absolutely certain of it . |
| 24 | It was important to me not to be silenced by the fear the anonymous caller invoked . |
| 25 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 26 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 27 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 28 | ‘ Daft of me not to be able to remember who the girl was , ’ he said , ‘ but I tell you what I do remember . |
| 29 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 30 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |