Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 3 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 4 | Telephone system still requires documentation , and some functions still to be added or re-instated . |
| 5 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |
| 6 | And in this varied picture there were even some share-croppers still to be found , though everywhere they were dwindling in importance . |
| 7 | Spontaneous procession leaving no time for notice may be exempted but there are some imponderables yet to be clarified in practice . |
| 8 | Look at the toes of its front feet and if you discover fur on its nails you will know for sure there is another rabbit still to be captured . |
| 9 | The 1960 were , as we can see now , in some ways rightly to be thought of as a time of indulgence . |
| 10 | There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care . |
| 11 | It is not unusual for this situation now to be recognised officially , and many authorities have the positions of the leaders included in their Standing Orders , sometimes , for instance , making them ex-officio members of all committees and sub-committees of the Council . |
| 12 | but he 's insuring it this weekend really to be quite honest |
| 13 | If SHe 'd known Jahsaxa 'd had hir fixed this way just to be an orgy machine , then SHe 'd never have gone through with it . |
| 14 | I 've just taken another pair today to be re-heeled . |
| 15 | Chemistry it 's not as high as we would like , and certainly not as high as erm our status in research erm would suggest erm and we feel that the perhaps there 's some image-building still to be done in this field . |
| 16 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 17 | If they know nothing upon the question , is that nothingness still to be respected ? ’ |
| 18 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |
| 19 | ‘ There is so much adventure still to be enjoyed , ’ says Rosemary who is a member of Wirral Tinnitus Group , one of the country 's largest tinnitus self-help groups . |
| 20 | Some , of course , deny that such purity of method is possible but few would argue with the proposition that where a description of law is coloured by the expositor 's own values it is a virtue for these values explicitly to be registered . |
| 21 | But representatives from AFHQ were to visit Eighth Army on 25 May , which would give an opportunity for these conflicts finally to be resolved . |
| 22 | But the amazing looks are only half of the story ; National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence — and they succeeded . |
| 23 | She had heard those words too many times before to be impressed by them . |
| 24 | It is safe to say that Hans Haacke is the least likely of all artists ever to be commissioned to design a presidential memorial ( though one day he may himself be memorialised as founder of the Academy of Anti-Establishment Art ) . |
| 25 | Too many years ago to be worth mentioning , I had a boyfriend who failed to understand the religious nature of my viewing , any more than I understood his motivation in inviting me to view along side of him . |
| 26 | If the waiters were curious about the room being in darkness they neither said nor did anything which indicated it ; they had been in the hotel business for far too many years now to be surprised by the antics or activities of the guests . |
| 27 | Is all difference eventually to be abolished ? |
| 28 | She 'd made her feelings towards him abundantly clear , of course , and common sense decreed that he leave this little drama to fizzle out , but he 'd glimpsed too many enigmas tonight to be able to shrug off his unease and walk away . |
| 29 | There are many problems still to be overcome in providing for the disabled . |
| 30 | So Paul calls upon all people everywhere to be reconciled to God ( 2 Cor. |