Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake believed that if he could understand all aspects of his horses , he could make them happy and motivate them to work better and to be more successful in competition . |
| 2 | In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do . |
| 3 | She was obviously relieved to have got out and to be on the boat home . |
| 4 | The retirement impact hypothesis appeared to spread quickly and to be widely accepted , particularly in governmental and other widely disseminated documents . |
| 5 | Some are excellent but it is very important to check thoroughly and to be completely satisfied about patient care and the right kind of atmosphere before making definite arrangements . |
| 6 | They do n't and to be dramatic they 'd be very , very silly to do so because I would take any step to avoid that happening . |
| 7 | To have ideas like this one taken seriously and to be treated with respect is surely a reasonable request . |
| 8 | Both of these French strategies illustrated a common belief in the need to move quickly and to be big in a few global market sectors . |
| 9 | But , it 's often difficult because quite often they come up and to be absolutely honest they 're not that good . |
| 10 | Quite transcendent , quite beyond the abilities of most people , and it really takes somebody like that to pull the genre up , to be singled out and to be remembered that way . |
| 11 | But there are other markets in which prices appear to move sluggishly and to be , at least in the short run , unresponsive to changes in supply and demand . |
| 12 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 13 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |