Example sentences of "[adv] [be] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm in that situation I fail to understand how that can necessarily be to be honest , because the vehicle in question has done eighty thousand miles . |
| 2 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 3 | Content as she generally was to be alone , this place had a distinctly solitary feel to it , and she 'd be more secure in Kelly 's extrovert company . |
| 4 | ‘ My style has always been to be analytical , ’ says the man who gained a double first in maths at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 5 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 6 | From there she writes that she also is to be involved in classes for the elderly . |
| 7 | At the same time Mandela 's remarks indicate that he , too , recognises the need to involve all the parties in the democracy negotiations if they really are to be democratic . |
| 8 | The last thing she needed right now was to be alone with her thoughts . |
| 9 | To be truly modern today is to be anti-modern ! |
| 10 | If the Lions trip here is to be worthwhile in terms of Test results and tour morale it is essential that this one is a victory . |
| 11 | ‘ We have decided that the answer from now on is to be greedy so-and-sos . |
| 12 | Clamp ( 1980 ) sets out eight objectives which may be achieved by learning through incidents , and these briefly are to be able to : |
| 13 | Check that you know who else is to be present , anticipate what ‘ hidden agendas– they may have and be sure that you know the level of formality . |
| 14 | To do otherwise is to be guilty of double counting . |