Example sentences of "[adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 2 | His motive was probably connected with the part of the text which says that the estates of Christ Church and other Kentish churches are henceforth to be free of all secular service and royal debt . |
| 3 | Better to be hot than visible . |
| 4 | Better to be good to him — be specially good to him . |
| 5 | Better to be casual and try to show no surprise . |
| 6 | Better to be drugged than have to face it . |
| 7 | Better to be safe , and all that . |
| 8 | Better to be safe than sorry . |
| 9 | ‘ Better to be safe , ’ he added wryly , handing her the flower-patterned gown . |
| 10 | He had a reprieve which was of indefinite length but better to be pessimistic than otherwise . |
| 11 | Better to be silent . |
| 12 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 13 | She struggled unavailingly to be free . |
| 14 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 15 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 16 | The outstretched arms of the great statue of Christ overlooking Rio no longer appear to the inhabitants of the favelas below to be open in benediction or welcome ; in this city of violence , insecurity and ravaged humanity , it appears to be rather a gesture of resignation and despair . |
| 17 | Eighteen months previously I would have been content merely to be alive . |
| 18 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 19 | Was that merely to be sociable — for her husband 's sake — or should he read something more into it ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Liza appeared not merely to be uninterested in her child , but positively to reject the dark-haired , red-faced bundle who Harriet felt more certain than ever had not been fathered by John Carrow . |
| 22 | The colour contrast is marked enough to be noticeable even with × 7 . |
| 23 | Yet even in 1360 the French royal council did not feel weak enough to be obliged to accept the terms ceded by the captive king in London . |
| 24 | They are short enough to be accessible to the pre-intermediate learner , and students will be pleased with their progress in understanding spoken English . |
| 25 | The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote . |
| 26 | John Hutt was in debt , not to any great extent , but enough to be embarrassing . |
| 27 | The 8.16 being late enough to be posthumous , we departed to the Coachman ( North Eastern Hotel as was ) for sustenance and lamentation . |
| 28 | Those Merseyside bastards are hellbent on destroyin' themselves and every poor management sod unlucky enough to be involved with the plant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She wanted to know why these paths existed ; there were several of them , not much used , but used often enough to be distinguishable . |