Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letters show Professor Smith wanted the Government to increase the ceiling on foreign holdings in BAe to 30 per cent — to boost the value of the company — and that Lord Young knew then tax concessions still to be agreed with the Inland Revenue on the deal could amount to nearer £65 million than the £25 million suggested to the commission . |
| 2 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 3 | Between 673 and 675 Wulfhere is found at his royal residence at Thame in Oxfordshire confirming a grant by which Frithuwald , sub-king of Wulfhere in the province of Surrey , gave land to Chertsey in the company of three other sub-kings , most probably of the regions bordering on Surrey — Osric , Wigheard and Aethelwald , all representing territories soon to be wholly subsumed within larger political creations ( CS 34 : S 1165 ) . |
| 4 | But I have come north again to be near it … ’ |
| 5 | To such people the world abroad too often resembled a sewer down which credulous Americans were persuaded to pour money only to be surprised when it disappeared without trace . |
| 6 | Butterworth had pushed Clibber forward to be spokesman . |
| 7 | When this intervention appeared likely to succeed , the watchful Philips caused Poyntz too to be arrested as a suspected heretic . |
| 8 | With several censure motions still to be debated , the ox walk was abandoned on the grounds that it was placing an undue strain on the health of older legislators , and was undermining the SDPJ 's image among the electorate . |
| 9 | Several bicycles , left days before for repair , would probably have to wait days more to be completed . |
| 10 | Mailing designs home to be printed on samples sewn by his mum , Wells made a start in sports couture . |
| 11 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 12 | On density , the circular played down its importance and commented that ‘ for many of the redevelopment and infill sites now to be brought into use , densities do not provide reliable performance indicators ’ . |
| 13 | The application of the recommendations is already showing drilling improvements at the Cupiagua-2 and Cupiagua-3 wells , Fear says , adding that these results also need to be transferred to people who will drill wells yet to be started . |
| 14 | PRIDE OF place at a number of P&O European Ferries ( Dover ) offices are certificates acknowledging their success in becoming the largest UK transport and travel company ever to be awarded the international quality standard BS 5750/ISO 9000 . |
| 15 | To inject a little infusion of vinegar , and at the same time stick to the truth , must seem to those who know Jim intimately to be an almost impossible feat . |
| 16 | Details of the programme will be distributed in good time beforehand but please make arrangements now to be represented . |
| 17 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 18 | But feminists who are alerted to the importance of symbolism believe Christianity accordingly to be judged . |
| 19 | For over two centuries , local fisherman have driven dolphins ashore to be butchered and eaten . |
| 20 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |
| 21 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 22 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 23 | They have to beat Ballyclare comfortably to be certain of going through , although a draw would be enough if Carrick can do no more than draw with Glenavon at Taylor 's Avenue . |
| 24 | DISABLED children throughout the world had cause yesterday to be grateful to a man who has proved that Great British Characters are not extinct . |
| 25 | A EUROPEAN ruling today pushed Britain closer to being placed in the dock over the killing by SAS soldiers in Gibraltar of three IRA terrorists . |