Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 2 | Personally , I prefer my fingerboards either to be bound with something you can see or left plain as nature intended , but for some reason Saga obviously like their fret-ends disguised . |
| 3 | I have to tell the house I have in fact put my name forward to be considered as a candidate to stand to stand for Conservative |
| 4 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 5 | I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's asking a bit much of my brain even to be compos mentis , let alone capable of storming anything . ’ |
| 7 | The search for Surere , the first of its kind ever to be conducted by the Medjays , had been organised with precision by Merymose . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 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 | The disk just sitting there , its mysteries yet to be unravelled … |
| 12 | The animal bounced back to its feet only to be killed by a bus . |
| 13 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 14 | Cuckoo-bees make their way into the nests of other kinds of bees and leave their eggs there to be tended and reared by others . |
| 15 | How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar . |
| 16 | Here she was , all alone in the wildly romantic snow-covered Scottish mountains with a man most women would give their eye-teeth simply to be in the same room with , and her only wish was to get away from him . |
| 17 | How many people have carefully bottled their beer only to be woken in the middle of the night by the sound of exploding corks ? |
| 18 | When they first came into existence in the late 1970s , the proportion of advanced work which they offered and , therefore their claim truly to be regarded as institutions of higher education , depended on their inheritances from their previous colleges . |
| 19 | On the other hand it must be remembered that a more rapid turnover of light industry ( production of essential articles ) permits its capital also to be used to build up heavy industry , whilst developing light industry at the same time . |
| 20 | It may train its advisers sufficiently to be able to give para-legal advice in those cases which do not require professional assistance ; it may refer the client to a solicitor ; it may arrange a rota scheme whereby a solicitor attends at the CAB office to see clients ; it may try to appoint its own solicitor . |
| 21 | ‘ Problem pages ’ in the women 's and youth magazines carried letters from unhappy girls who had ‘ given themselves ’ to their boyfriends subsequently to be abandoned and labelled as a ‘ package of dirty linen ’ . |
| 22 | Educating the people is vitally important too — because unless families understand why immunisation is so important , they will not bring their children forward to be vaccinated . |
| 23 | On Oct. 30 the party declared its assets currently to be worth DM4,000 million as result of increases in property values . |
| 24 | Nor were her companions anywhere to be seen . |
| 25 | No French cantatas are as tonally wayward , although the keys chosen for the principal movements in the first book ( 1706 ) of Jean-Baptiste Stuck , one of the pioneers of the genre , and who claimed in his preface simply to be joining French words to Italian music , hint at a similar approach ( table 1 ) . |
| 26 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 27 | He was crawling painfully through the undergrowth towards the track , his horse nowhere to be seen . |
| 28 | With his emphasis on the scrum and close-quarter exchanges , the French coach wants even his loose forwards to be tight , and the new generation he introduced against the Lions looked inadequate . |
| 29 | His dream only to be fulfilled |
| 30 | Comprising eight installations selected from a working career of fifteen years , the exhibition is the most comprehensive survey of his art yet to be mounted , and has been organised in conjunction with the Kunsthalle in Basel , where it was seen in April and May . |