Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole place has got an air of being run down , and county council , I think to be honest , would quite like it to fall down , or just to be able to develop the whole site . |
| 2 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 3 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 4 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 5 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 6 | He had said that just to be polite . |
| 7 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 8 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 9 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 10 | It was felt that high concentrations would be more likely to cause direct stimulation of the enteric endocrine cells and thus to be effective . |
| 11 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 12 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 13 | While this sort of dissatisfaction was being aired , the Manpower Services Commission , established in 1974 as an offshoot of the Department of Trade and Industry , was becoming increasingly important in the training of the young unemployed : the education service seemed more and more to be poor , mean and irrelevant when contrasted with the up-to-date and positively useful service of training . |
| 14 | Pray that God would inspire leaders to be bold and also to be flexible in the area of finances . |
| 15 | Canon Elvy encourages the churches to respect European values and also to be careful in distinguishing between the terms ‘ communication ’ , ‘ publicity ’ , ‘ image-building ’ and ‘ information ’ . |
| 16 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 17 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 18 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |
| 19 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 20 | You learn to be middle aged and then to be old aged . |
| 21 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 22 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 23 | You want me to be angry , which I ca n't be , and then to be soothing , which I can be . |
| 24 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 25 | At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear . |
| 26 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 27 | To have Midnight lying almost above her head and yet to be incapable of protecting him , or even taking the water he needed , was a kind of torment . |
| 28 | The next step , that of being ‘ participant as an observer ’ , requires observers to adopt roles which enable them to become a member of a group and yet to be able to ask questions without fully disclosing their roles as researchers . |
| 29 | Calling the police had proved again and again to be useless . |
| 30 | His headmaster , ( Sir ) Cyril Norwood [ q.v. ] , had given him two pieces of advice : to answer all letters by return of post , and never to be afraid of unpopularity . |