Example sentences of "[adv] to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official exchange rate , was henceforth to be adjusted weekly in line with the prevailing market rate . |
| 2 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 3 | Andrew Andrews , a medical legal expert and legal adviser to Tunbridge Wells Health Authority , said it was not enough to be given legal powers and training . |
| 4 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 5 | The latter region incorporates the material that is oligomeric , and the line separating II and III represents the oligomer-polymer transition where the chains begin to become long enough to be considered capable of adopting a gaussian coil conformation . |
| 6 | The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote . |
| 7 | For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’ |
| 8 | It depends upon the weather , but after a week or so the concrete will have dried sufficiently to be treated prior to the introduction of fish and plants . |
| 9 | In no way did we want a union type association , it was all to be kept low key and friendly , which suited both ourselves and our administration , for we already had an official union which catered for the needs of the Customs and Excise in general . |
| 10 | She would gladly pay for the additional units but these would cost only to be made available . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure — ’ Derek began , only to be cut short by Charlotte . |
| 12 | What with hauling carpets in and out , cleaning the wallpaper with a loose dough — a trick Sally-Anne found oddly satisfying , if messy — washing every curtain , sheet , blanket , cushion-cover , piece of crockery , floorboard , door and window-frame , ceiling — you name it , Sally-Ann cleaned it — by Sunday she felt quite stunned and had gone to sleep during the rector 's sermon , only to be prodded awake by Matey , to a smiling Dr Neil 's amusement . |
| 13 | At times we seemed to be on an unavoidable collision course with menacing sharp edged rocks , only to be swept clear by the current at the last minute . |
| 14 | But previous UN convoys to Gorazde have also been permitted to cross the border , only to be stopped short by the Serbs at Rogatica , 20 miles from the besieged town . |
| 15 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 16 | A highbrow Louise Colet , constantly pestering Gustave , who wanted only to be left alone . |
| 17 | If Edwin did not mind , she wished only to be left alone . |
| 18 | She did not want to face either of them — the pain of her own betrayal went too deep for that , and she wanted only to be left alone , to deal with her heartache as best she could . |
| 19 | Just before half-time , Doherty had a strong header well saved , while Johnston nipped in well to get on the end of a Beatty cross only to be forced wide by the keeper . |
| 20 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 21 | On the train to face trial in the north , Peace jumped through an open carriage window , and although a guard clung to his shoe he wriggled free , only to be found unconscious in the snow . |
| 22 | Their association was no longer to be kept secret and , anyway , Laura denied that he had come . |
| 23 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 24 | ERCO were soon to be kept busy producing war materials , and it was not until August 1945 that production of the Ercoupe resumed . |
| 25 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 27 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 28 | That is why it needs quickly to be made clear just how high the cost of a crackdown might be . |
| 29 | When parents are overstressed and have little energy or patience they may give in quickly to be left alone . |
| 30 | For the time being , the dogs were still to be kept separate at night , when left at home alone , or unsupervised . |