Example sentences of "[conj] [det] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The municipality and the Imperial Household , less inclined for one reason or another to be parsimonious , added gas lighting to public spectacle by illuminating the city 's monuments on state occasions and holidays . |
| 2 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 3 | But you must be , or you must become , very much your own men and women because newspapers everywhere and all the other parts of the media are only , are just sitting there with baited breath aching for that phone to ring from you , to tell us things , because virtually anything which you get involved in , is likely in one way or another to be controversial . |
| 4 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 5 | I am not so bothered about losing the repeat in the Andante cantabile of K548 , although that to is a lovely work — it might be argued that at 12:44 , the London Fortepiano Trio 's performance of this movement is too much of a good thing ! |
| 6 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 7 | As many wartime evacuees found to their alarm , rural housing remained at a lower standard than that to be found in most urban areas , with only slow progress having been made in the provision of piped water , sewerage and electricity . |
| 8 | As observed above , the quality of some of the buildings is also better than that to be observed in many small towns , in which mosaics in particular are rare . |
| 9 | Which of us can hope for anything better than that to be said about us ? |
| 10 | These British prices are somewhat lower than those to be found in Continental Europe or the USA , but have risen towards European levels in recent years . |
| 11 | It is after all , an entity which gives house room to people as different as Chilean gaucho and Japanese silk farmer , Californian software writer and Australian brewer , Tongan noble and Panamanian politician ; it encompasses men and ideas more disparate and discordant than any to be found within the borders of any other physical entity on the planet . |
| 12 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 13 | To ask for solutions as well is perhaps to ask too much , for he has found more than most to be angry or cynical about . |
| 14 | It seems a more unlikely plant than most to be a herb , but the whole of it , leaves , stems etc. , consist of about 30 per cent mucilage , and this has a great number of medicinal applications , known for many centuries . |
| 15 | ‘ Mrs Cole has more reason than most to be anxious . |
| 16 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 17 | One of the most persuasive interpretations of this fact , and that to be considered next , derives from Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theories . |
| 18 | Duncan and Goodwin claim that state institutions are invaluable in the management and organization of the differentiated and spatially variable societies typical of capitalism , and that to be successful such state intervention should take place on a local as well as a national level . |
| 19 | Hardly then , though it did cross Frederica 's mind that sex inhibited talk and that to be talked to by Alexander was a pleasure not readily to be forgone . |
| 20 | I was too young to know that the having to tell myself gave the game away ; and that to be uninhibited about one 's own sexual activities is not the same as being unshockable . |
| 21 | It has been the sometimes unspoken assumption of these two parallel debates — whose spokespersons are often one and the same — that to be on the side of modernity and modernism is to be on the side of critical theory , and that to be a postmodernist is at the same time to be in sympathy with poststructuralism . |
| 22 | Janette Richardson 's commentary on animal imagery in the Shipman 's Tale , and that to be found in the Miller 's and Reeve 's Tales ( next chapter ) ) and sterile intellectualism ; between the worlds of sensory experience and high auctoritee . |
| 23 | There is , however , some conflict between detail provided by Gregory in his Histories and that to be found in his other works ; moreover earlier evidence is at odds both with specific points in the Histories , and also with their general interpretation , which sees Clovis 's reign as the manifestation of divine support granted to the king after his conversion . |
| 24 | But when all this is fully recognised yet the law , in some circumstances , reserves a right to say that a contract is in restraint of trade and that to be enforceable it must pass a test of reasonableness . |
| 25 | No , it needs something to go in there , very fine and that to be bent down . |
| 26 | Let us assume that you found some to be same and some to be different . |
| 27 | Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up . |
| 28 | He was diligent in visiting the sick and distressed , supposing this to be ‘ the fittest time to discover to them those errors to which health and prosperity had blinded them ’ . |
| 29 | A Brownie is chosen to be the Farmer and another to be the Thief . |
| 30 | There are many kilometres to Paris and much to be decided . |