Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As to the outside world , I now take just sufficient interest in what goes on to be thankful that , though I am deaf , I can vote . ’ |
| 2 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 3 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 4 | This has all to be seen in the context of the profound fatalism about life itself . |
| 5 | A heavy bait , therefore , has to be tackled from a shorter range than does a light one ; a comparatively clean bait — a worm for instance , lying on sand or gravel — has only to be ‘ vacuumed ’ a few times , if at all , before the bream swallows it . |
| 6 | In my judgment , the question has only to be put for the answer to be apparent . |
| 7 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 8 | In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work . |
| 9 | On a first reading it seems puzzling that the ‘ Poorer Growth ’ camps should be those of five or six of our best camp managers whose experience of diet is exceptional , and that the ‘ Good Growth ’ camps should include two Managers whose catering has constantly to be reviewed as not up to our standard . |
| 10 | Many passsages in the Jewish scriptures refer to the way in which religious observance itself can become an enormous obstacle and has constantly to be overcome . |
| 11 | Lord Russell of Killowen at 282 stated : One argument needs perhaps to be specifically considered . |
| 12 | He has largely to be fed by a nasogastric tube . |
| 13 | Once a sizeable sum has been accumulated from street deals , this illegal cash has somehow to be ‘ made legal ’ by slipping it into the banking system . |
| 14 | Explicitly or implicitly , the various theories treat aggression as an absolute discrete ‘ thing ’ , which , when it appears to be absent in a particular society , has somehow to be accounted for . |
| 15 | To complicate matters further , the flats have now been given planning approval , but major work needs still to be done to meet building regulations , work which they , as the owners , must pay for . |
| 16 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 17 | This needs always to be stressed . |
| 18 | ‘ For charities , there has always to be work yet undone . |
| 19 | The transparent ‘ honesty ’ with which he will say good and bad about the people he 's worked with and around has always to be taken as having a ‘ point of view ’ ; that ‘ point of view ’ is governed by what Niki is looking for at any particular moment . |
| 20 | This last has always to be measured in terms of numbers , and can take no account of degree of motivation . |
| 21 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 22 | However , older cats are also at risk if introduced into those special households , but the exposure has usually to be longer . |
| 23 | That is why it needs quickly to be made clear just how high the cost of a crackdown might be . |
| 24 | The main battle has still to be fought and won . ’ |
| 25 | They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard . |
| 26 | 1 his rather sudden change has still to be explained , although the huge reduction in the overall pace of pasture improvement is clearly linked with the stagnation in the market for cattle and sheep . |
| 27 | The history of ageing in this country has still to be written . |
| 28 | Even this basic level of skill has still to be mastered by the average public library . |
| 29 | It may be seen from the above that the controversy between ‘ past use ’ and imprint date as a criterion for weeding has still to be resolved . |
| 30 | Sometimes conversations reveal the lack of understanding of this concept : it has still to be formed in the minds of some of the children . |