Example sentences of "[vb pp] it to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 2 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 3 | She had expected it to be weighted , to feel cold and heavy . |
| 4 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 5 | A fire was lit in the ‘ Front Room ’ ( the only time I had known it to be used ) . |
| 6 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 7 | There may be an organisation which has ringed it to be resold . |
| 8 | For whether or no she had been instrumental in the making of that despicable will , it was her presence here that had caused it to be made . |
| 9 | The lack of clarity in property rights over forest and pastureland , in particular , has led it to be over-exploited , the report claims . |
| 10 | So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent . |
| 11 | The German scientist who around 1906 synthesized novocaine , the first non-addictive narcotic , had intended it to be used in major surgical procedures like amputation . |
| 12 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 13 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 14 | It was considered so repulsive by Queen Victoria that there are suggestions she actually allowed it to be stolen . |
| 15 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 16 | British standards do not required it to be used in conjunction with flue gas desulphurisation ( FGD ) technology , which would reduce the emission of sulphur into the air . |
| 17 | The poor state of the wall required it to be rebuilt and the people of Pennal took advantage of this to tidy up the churchyard and to turn it into a ‘ heritage garden ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |