Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 2 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 3 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 4 | By contrast , particular skills tend only to be identified by those who have specialized by method of intervention ( for example , marital counselling ) or by client sub-group ( for example , fostering and adoption ) . |
| 5 | The shortcomings of the JIC and the secret agencies tend only to be exposed after the kind of failure they exist to prevent . |
| 6 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 7 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 8 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 9 | In other words , while Tillich maintains that when finite particulars are given the status of ultimacy it is detrimental to true religion and a form of demonization , Gandhi insists that symbols which become fetishes are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 10 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 11 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 12 | But no doubt some of the original Hooligans — ‘ instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried ’ as Baden-Powell had somewhat indelicately described the goal of reclamation — were buried alongside them , remembered only in the writings and memoirs of youth workers which act as their tombstones . |
| 13 | She was just a young female human being , fit only to be somebody 's cousin or aunt . |
| 14 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 15 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 16 | Delight enough to be sure , but the pleasure was greatly amplified when it was recognized , almost immediately , that the harpsichord bore an uncommon resemblance to the instrument shown in the famous Mercier portrait of Handel ( see cover ) . |
| 17 | Decorative wooden decoy ducks are also touch enough to be handled by toddlers , although you must make sure the children do n't put them in their mouths — the same goes for all painted ornaments . |
| 18 | We want finally to be a people 's army . ’ |
| 19 | I expect soon to be engaged , you see . ’ |
| 20 | But those who stand to lose the most from under-counting want more to be done . |
| 21 | Apart from such feudal anomalies most people in the South — the urban poor and the peasants in the countryside — appear hardly to be touched by taxes . |
| 22 | However a great deal of casual conversation contains phrases and echoes of phrases which appear more to be intended as contributions to a conversation than to be taken as instances of information-giving . |
| 23 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 24 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 25 | But in the same way that the sexual act is losing its meaning , in pub scene , or baroque interior , or city flat , with the result that we are brought to question whatever meaning it once may seem to have possessed , so in The Waste Land the rituals of religion appear also to be failing . |
| 26 | Transmitter substances appear also to be released at neuromuscular junctions : there is evidence that glutamate is responsible for transmitting excitation from nerves to muscle ( e.g. Beranek and Miller , 1969 ) and that GABA may act as an inhibitory transmitter at these sites . |
| 27 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 28 | Those of the low Arctic ( within a boundary similar to that of Aleksandrova , discussed on p. 85 ) appear mainly to be boreal alpine species that have spread northward . |
| 29 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 30 | Because it is unavoidable , in treating of mental propositions , to make use of words ; and then the instances of mental propositions cease immediately to be barely mental , and become verbal . ’ |