Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 2 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 3 | It is a peculiarity of this disease that the disease itself creates a wish not to be cured or only to be cured if and when the patient decides to cure himself or herself , which may well be too late . |
| 4 | Or soon to be . |
| 5 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 6 | Examples of the second type are cases such as Davies , Turner and Co v Lowen ( 1891 ) 64 LT 655 in which a clause sought to prevent an employee entering any business similar to that " now or hereafter to be carried on " by the employer ; or Perls v Saalfeld [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 149 in which a clause preventing an employee from accepting " another situation as clerk or agent " was struck down . |
| 7 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 8 | So the novel frees Stavrogin from ‘ to be or not to be ’ and all other trammels of the notebooks , and transfers them to Kirillov . |
| 9 | Commodities : AFBD problem : to be or not to be |
| 10 | The first was The Country House : To Be or Not To Be , produced with Kit Martin . |
| 11 | He proffered a modern translation of Hamlet 's ‘ To be , or not to be ’ . |
| 12 | He proffered a modern translation of Hamlet 's ‘ To be , or not to be ’ . |
| 13 | HAMLET : To be , or not to be : that is the question : Whether ‘ t is nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , Or to take arms against a sea of troubles , And by opposing end them ? |
| 14 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 15 | ‘ To be or not to be — ’ ’ |
| 16 | Science fiction thus illustrates a principle of all drama : it is a confrontation between normality and abnormality , security and insecurity , known and unknown , to be or not to be ! |
| 17 | That is : ‘ To be or not to be ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes executives have , in effect , a choice as to whether or not to be dismissed . |
| 19 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
| 20 | ‘ To be , or not to be — that is the question ; ’ |
| 21 | Thus , not to act or not to be able to act decisively against the ban in the first place seriously questioned the professional association 's ability to take a firm position on the vital matter of unhindered access to legitimate publications . |
| 22 | Moreover , not to act or not to be able to act decisively , seriously weakened the resolve of members in making a choice between professional standards and employers ' decisions . |
| 23 | TO BE OR NOT TO BE |
| 24 | Shall I give you my ‘ To be or not to be ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | She did n't know whether or not to be disappointed . |
| 26 | To be or not to be . |
| 27 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
| 28 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 29 | He recited ‘ To be or not to be ’ . |
| 30 | He went to one party where Cole Porter played the piano , Judy Garland sang and , invited to follow that , the young Welsh unknown blenched not , stood forward and slammed the room silent with ‘ To be or not to be ’ spoken in Welsh . |