Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 2 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 3 | Dmitri , typing letters of thanks for the Freud books sent by American friends , was a little irritated to be interrupted . |
| 4 | Inflation for the month of December was officially stated as 40.1 per cent but was unofficially recognized to be much higher . |
| 5 | It is difficult to understand why this screen — which was presumably intended to be a close-boarded fence — was needed , as the turnpike road is some distance away , one field beyond the other side of the river . |
| 6 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 7 | One would , for example , assume right turns to be objectively more dangerous than left turns . |
| 8 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 9 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 10 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 11 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 12 | If the row over the IFC 's capital increase is not settled soon , work will be delayed that , according to the administration itself , badly needs to be done . |
| 13 | The suggested Fifth Man badly needs to be an up-and-coming forwards ' coach . |
| 14 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 15 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 16 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 18 | Gamsakhurdia 's term was to last only until direct presidential elections which the Supreme Soviet scheduled for May 26 , but he was widely expected to be returned to office . |
| 19 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 20 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 21 | The next step in that process is widely expected to be the sale next week of Cockburn 's of Leith , a wine merchant subsidiary . |
| 22 | Jiang is widely expected to be named China 's president in addition to his current post during the annual meeting of the National People 's Congress that begins on Monday . |
| 23 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 24 | As for the requirement for companies which own or operate fishing vessels registered in the United Kingdom to have their principal place of business in the United Kingdom , little needs to be added to that which has already been stated in discussing the nationality requirements . |
| 25 | ( c ) Property held by husband and wife and a third party In circumstances where the husband is to convey his interest in the house to the wife , little needs to be done to the legal title other than for the husband to retire as a trustee ; the wife and third party ( possibly her mother ) will be left holding the legal estate , the beneficial interests being " behind the curtain " . |
| 26 | The use of reading lists , tapes , slides , video-recordings etc. needs to be carefully planned , because they form a major resource . |
| 27 | Practically all of the capital outlay on building costs etc. needs to be incurred at the start ( we have to have ‘ show ’ units and functioning leisure facilities in order to sell at all ) . |
| 28 | We need to take good note of this , for it is an aspect of Leonard 's life , little stressed to be sure , at times perhaps deliberately down-played , that is of immense significance to him . |
| 29 | We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards . |
| 30 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |