Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To such people the world abroad too often resembled a sewer down which credulous Americans were persuaded to pour money only to be surprised when it disappeared without trace . |
| 2 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 3 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 4 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 5 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 6 | It was in any case only to be expected that a serious move by the Community to advance further through a reduction of national sovereignty and freedom to act independently would generate a nationalist opposition . |
| 7 | At a national level the Council estimated the disadvantage arising from the poundage alone to be £401 million in the fiscal year 1991/92 . |
| 8 | A few did succeed in reaching the border , however , and on Aug. 13 at least 15 dissidents cut through a barbed wire fence only to be arrested as they rushed towards the Demilitarized Zone which divided the two Korean states . |
| 9 | In 1863 , Manet 's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected at the annual Salon only to be exhibited at the Salon des Refusés . |
| 10 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 11 | In other instances medical intervention via naso-gastric feeding may be necessary to aid the child gain weight sufficiently to be out of immediate danger ( Goldbloom 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The first Mayor so to be honoured was , appropriately enough , Mr. Winterbottom , Lady Vernon 's Steward , who was Mayor in 1831 and 1832 . |
| 13 | Only three ministers in the sample were puritan enough to be ejected from their livings after 1660 . |
| 14 | The basic tale of how young Winifred Gwenffrwd , was attacked and beheaded by her thwarted assailant only to be revived by her uncle , St Beuno , is one of the better known legends of ancient Wales . |
| 15 | No serial lead is included as the Pocket is small and light enough to be attached directly to a PC 's serial port . |
| 16 | It 's part of our thinking not to be on an emotional roller coaster , ’ said Rod Davis , the New Zealand skipper . |
| 17 | The history of education is littered with discarded phrases , phrases which were once fashionable and seemed to encapsulate the spirit of a Utopia soon to be born . |
| 18 | Ernest Valko , who was appointed the chair of the court , declared on Feb. 12 that all the judges had accepted a recommendation not to be active politically . |
| 19 | Wickham showed the photograph just to be sure . |
| 20 | ‘ Not particularly , and I 'll thank you in the future not to be telling men it 's OK to come into my room . |
| 21 | Some 80,000 customers bought cards from us last year , and even with a 60p average unit price , this is turnover not to be sneered at . |
| 22 | Donna Landry believes that the poem ’ … presents an iconography of paternal despotism and daughterly humiliation scarcely to be met with elsewhere in eighteenth-century verse' [ Landry , 103 ] . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Bartley removed the passenger door lock , used its serial number to buy an ignition key from the garage 's parts department and drove the car away to be ringed . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sick as a parrot not to be standing , ’ said Nigel . |
| 25 | Brouhaha not to be confused with the Merseyside-inspired Brouhaha Festival being held in Budapest this year are staging a play about that most British of talking-points , the weather . |
| 26 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 27 | The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one . |
| 28 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 29 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 30 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |