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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nor is the main character of yours likely to be a detective , of any sort . |
| 15 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You ca n't but peek at them just to be titillated , not really believing what they are saying , since they are concocted by charlatans . |
| 18 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 19 | We can only hope that their soon to be announced UK distributor is as helpful in sorting out these little problems . |
| 20 | In 1816 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and made a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog , on the strength of which he allowed himself thenceforth to be called ‘ Sir Charles ’ . |
| 21 | There were plenty more to be had cheaper ! |
| 22 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
| 23 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 24 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 25 | DoubleClickSpeed=452 : Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click . |
| 26 | There was nothing decently to be done and so with disproportionate reluctance Flavia took Andrée to the tower . |
| 27 | Isaiah declares that God 's servant , whom Christians recognise as Jesus Christ , will be ‘ a light for the Gentiles ’ and that God himself ‘ will ‘ beckon ’ them , calling them forth to be part of his purposes of salvation to the ends of the earth' ( Isa. 42.6 ; 49:6 , 22 ) . |
| 28 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 29 | Yes , yeah when we used to bring them home to be slaughtered on the Monday , you see . |
| 30 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |