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Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The fry of livebearers and the eggs of any fish which happen to spawn are quickly devoured by the other fish — often including the parents , which see them as a meal .
2	Orders to kill are still issued by the drug barons .
3	Learning to read and learning to write are intimately related .
4	And the standards we have to meet are rigorously laid down regulations .
5	For example , conditions necessary for seeds to germinate were often studied in much the same way by successive age groups .
6	Special precautions were also taken to guard stations , bridges , and level crossings , and all facing points over which the train had to pass were securely bolted .
7	Those unfit to work were rarely remembered , principally because few survived for long .
8	‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’
9	Similarly discretion not to prosecute is sometime based on grounds irrelevant to our purpose , e.g. that prosecution will cause widespread riots .
10	Ironically , the power to prosecute is rarely used .
11	It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries .
12	It was generally agreed that the right to communicate was rarely upheld in African countries .
13	To struggle was only to weaken himself ; he could not displace the weight or break the grip that held him down .
14	The Central Authority 's ambition to standardise was also based on the role accorded to it by statute ‘ … to co-ordinate the distribution of electricity by Area Boards and to exercise a general control over the policy of those Boards ’ .
15	Any shares which the bidder 's shareholders agree to purchase are then said to be " clawed back " from underwriters .
16	We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives .
17	Merchants and storekeepers flocked to them , building at first only shanties for warehouses and stores , and the nearby towns which they were supposed to serve were seriously damaged .
18	Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known .
19	To listen is also to expect .
20	Their impulse to rule is neither analysed nor questioned .
21	ALRINS The module you have tried to install is already installed .
22	The training we were to receive was later to help us teenagers when most of us enlisted into the services .
23	( iv ) A submission of no case to answer was also made by the respondent in relation to count 2 .
24	A submission of no case to answer was also made in regard to count 2 .
25	Our inner responses to conflict are often dredged up from deep and sometimes murky wells within us .
26	Attempts to trade on the location of the short-run Phillips curves means the equilibria that governments try to engineer are successively found at 1 , 2 and 3 , assuming that incorporates the initially expected inflation rate .
27	Many of the lochs we used to fish are now affected by forestry : Meala , Sletill , Leir , Talaheel , Lochan nan Clach Geala , The Cross Lochs , Caol , Garbh , Skyline , Caise , Meadie , Cherigal , Gaineimh , Eileanach , Dubh nan Geodh and Toftingall .
28	It has been a point frequently made that the characters exposed to ridicule are never given attributes that can have been designed to evoke sympathy from the reader ; frequently quite the contrary .
29	Over the past two months I 've dealt with what you need to look out for when buying a computer and how to tell if the machine you intend to buy is well built .
30	In sentence 1 the identity of the person who wants to resign is grammatically established as the president and in sentence 2 it is established as some male person who is not the president : the grammar itself specifies disjunctive reference for him .