Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 2 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 3 | The island no longer gave men without much capital the economic opportunity sometimes to be found on a frontier , where land can be acquired cheaply by anyone prepared to make the great effort needed to clear it and plant the first crops . |
| 4 | That the wall over this altar is no longer bare demonstrates the new , forward-looking nature of the hitherto so tragic , so complicated relations between the Germans and Czechs , and of their reciprocal readiness now to be reconciled ‘ . |
| 5 | Having won 15 of the rally 's 33 special stages , Biasion became world champion with the Ivory Coast and British rallies still to be run in a season spanning 13 events . |
| 6 | Bao , the former head of the CCP central committee 's office on political structural reform , had been a key participant in implementing Zhao 's reformist policies , and was the most senior public figure yet to be tried in connection with the 1989 unrest . |
| 7 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 8 | Donna Landry believes that the poem ’ … presents an iconography of paternal despotism and daughterly humiliation scarcely to be met with elsewhere in eighteenth-century verse' [ Landry , 103 ] . |
| 9 | There was plenty of old business still to be settled . |
| 10 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 11 | The stage set is a masterpiece of ingenuity and construction skills , and despite some acoustic problems yet to be solved , no praise could be too high for the really splendid contribution of the Ulster Orchestra under our own Christopher Bell , who has also conducted the work in Dublin . |
| 12 | A further potentially exciting area yet to be explored in the diabetic population is the dietary substitution of the ω-3 series of fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic and decosahexaenoic acids which has been shown to favourably affect platelet function in non-diabetic subjects ( Siess et al , 1980 ; Thorngren & Gustafson , 1981 ; Lorenz et al , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Here is the very subway corridor in which , in 1980 , Lord Home , Sir Alec as was , became the most celebrated personage ever to be mugged on the Underground system . |
| 14 | He is a V1 winner , the highest rated German dog ever to be imported into the UK . |
| 15 | Another attractive German newcomer shortly to be on sale in Britain is the roomy new Audi 100 . |
| 16 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 17 | ‘ Home for the kings of Northumberland and the first English castle ever to be damaged by gunfire . |
| 18 | In one case , for example , a victim developed car trouble and sought help at a nearby garage only to be raped by the mechanic on duty … . |
| 19 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 20 | There were chances at both ends and Aberdeen were unfortunate not to be awarded a penalty when Shearer went to meet a Paatelainen cross only to be barged from behind by Narey . |
| 21 | Outrage condemned Shostakovitch , and it is an odd test indeed to be proposed in the defence of literature and the arts . |
| 22 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 23 | In 1863 , Manet 's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected at the annual Salon only to be exhibited at the Salon des Refusés . |
| 24 | Two optional extra days are being added to the overall programme both to be held at . |
| 25 | Of the additional safeguards now to be considered the primary one , both to investors and creditors , is the publicity which , to a greater or lesser extent , attends the functioning of the company . |
| 26 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 27 | But female psychologists are much more likely than male psychologists always to be seen as some male psychologist 's prize student . |
| 28 | It was agreed that the paper should be redrafted and circulated , and that any published statements of policy should make it clear Conservatives ‘ did not believe additional resources alone to be the answer to law and order problems , but that the humanizing of our society had an important contribution to make ’ . |
| 29 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 30 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |