Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | W well the only issue for you is whether or not you can , you 're in good enough control there to be able to say can you we need to be within the four to six banding , okay ? |
| 2 | So try not to be too rigid or too carried away ; a happy balance will help the general feel and atmosphere of the room in the end . |
| 3 | When you look inside try not to be put off by the decor — if it 's hideous , you can always redecorate . |
| 4 | You only come over to be nosy do n't ya ? |
| 5 | The tests and hazards are different , and perhaps have yet to be encountered . |
| 6 | 11 , has been a source of problems which perhaps have yet to be resolved at the highest level . |
| 7 | ‘ I just expect not to be leered at and not to have my correspondence read . |
| 8 | No I just do n't , I mean I do n't understand what 's like if you see who 's going out with people it 's always the boringest people , I 've never seen any of them smile , laugh , talk , they just , they just seem like to be shells of people |
| 9 | If you feel you 're going to be sick , just try not to be , and do n't drink any more till it passes off , otherwise it 'll all be wasted , wo n't it ? |
| 10 | The spending targets in the White Paper thus turn out to be unhelpful for long-term planning purposes . |
| 11 | So all those myths about the wicked step- father , the wicked step-mother and so forth seem almost to be true in this respect . |
| 12 | Even so , those with grace always know how to be graceful and she would probably understand the true meaning of the gesture . |
| 13 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 14 | Shoes always turn out to be wrong for the climate . |
| 15 | So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather . |
| 16 | Except , ’ she added regretfully , ‘ the presents usually turn out to be nicked . |
| 17 | The trouble is that the traditions and symbols that embody and transmit these supposedly universal and perennial virtues usually turn out to be modern inventions ( Hobsbawm and Ranger , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
| 19 | Readers of Malcolm Lowry 's Under the Volcano ( 1947 ) , for example , are introduced to a herd of buffaloes which quickly turn out to be merely the phantoms of a drink-sodden mind . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you want to stay ? ’ she asked , still sober enough to be anxious that there should be no misunderstandings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 23 | In the case of more general or abstract essays ( on whole works , on authors or on critical issues ) , it is necessary to find other means of organising an argument — though some of the means also turn out to be applicable when looking at individual passages . |
| 24 | While neighbours need to contribute to some notional ‘ stock of common good ’ , so that they can draw on it should they become in need of help at some point in the future , they also wish not to be imposed upon by the needs of others . |
| 25 | They had both clearly come here to be alone . |
| 26 | Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species . |
| 27 | ‘ Pairs ’ often turn out to be two females . |
| 28 | Under careful examination , moccasins , Navajo patterned rugs , and costumed kachina dolls often turn out to be woven or simply stamped out by factories in Taiwan or the Philippines . |
| 29 | These idealised sentences often turn out to be based , in fact , on the conventions of written language in the academic sub-culture and these linguists could be seen to be perpetuating , albeit in more sophisticated terms , the older , ideological conception of writing as the model for speech . |
| 30 | Bad or indifferent starters and main courses often turn out to be partly redeemed at the pudding stage . |