Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital investment programme is , or rather purports to be , a plan for the employment of available resources of manpower and materials . |
| 2 | We simply do not yet know enough about the capacity of learning strategies that have been discovered or perhaps remain to be discovered . |
| 3 | For example , if 100 ft or less has to be gained , then the rate of change should not exceed 200 ft/min. 5 . |
| 4 | It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory . |
| 5 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 6 | It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely . |
| 7 | Also , difference due to sex where not found to be significant in this study . |
| 8 | And the answer was the County Council is committed or not prepared to be uncommitted to a road north of Knaresborough . |
| 9 | A higher proportion of the CSW team 's notional ‘ elderly ’ time was devoted to work with people not yet clients , or ‘ not exactly ’ clients ( whether they were regarded as open cases or not seemed to be a matter of chance ) . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) This section does not apply to — ( a ) assents by a personal representative ; ( b ) disclaimers made in accordance with section 54 of the bankruptcy Act 1914 or not required to be evidenced in writing ; ( c ) surrenders by operation of law , including surrenders which may , by law , be effected without writing ; ( d ) leases or tenancies or other assurances not required by law to be made in writing ; ( e ) receipts not required by law to be under seal ; ( f ) vesting orders of the court or other competent authority ; ( g ) conveyances taking effect by operation of law . |
| 11 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 12 | No price was in fact paid or ever intended to be paid . |
| 13 | Workers who were too low or irregularly paid to be accepted by Friendly Societies and did not join a trade union , might contribute through the Post Office . |
| 14 | To prevent our visions degenerating into day-dreams they will sooner or later need to be earthed in goals and plans . |
| 15 | every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening to break the peace refrain from doing so … |
| 16 | ‘ every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening the peace refrain from doing so ; and those reasonable steps in appropriate cases will include detaining him against his will . ’ |
| 17 | Section 13 of the Theft Act 1968 reads : [ A ] person who dishonestly uses without due authority , or dishonestly causes to be wasted or diverted , any electricity is guilty of a crime . |
| 18 | Like all good secretaries she had acquired or at least known how to simulate , some of the idealised attributes of wife , mother , mistress , confidante , servant and friend without being , or indeed expecting to be , any of these . |
| 19 | Not all women consider themselves to be beautiful , or indeed wish to be so in conventional terms . |
| 20 | He drops , or there happen to be dropped , sore words like ‘ Napoleon ’ and ‘ axe ’ into his discourse . |
| 21 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 22 | The need is real , or certainly felt to be real , and the complaints are understandable . |
| 23 | These typically concern matters which are either too petty to receive formal legal treatment , or too involved to be brought to court . |
| 24 | Both sides spare themselves awkward questions that badly need to be answered . |
| 25 | Pink tablets to be taken at the first sign of symptoms and Yellow tablets that only need to be taken if symptoms persist . |
| 26 | His words jarred Harriet and she swallowed at the ball of nerves that suddenly seemed to be constricting her throat . |
| 27 | The only functions that necessarily have to be carried out by the Bank of England are lender of last resort facilities — even supervision could be carried out by a self regulatory organisation ( SRO — see Chapter 12 ) for the banking system . |
| 28 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 29 | There are a great number of myths that constantly need to be laid about school dinners . |
| 30 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |