Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern . ’ |
| 2 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 3 | If you are faced with this , the only thing to do is to refuse to be drawn into any fruitless arguments , but stand firm in your resolve to leave when you feel you must , assuring her of your affection and concern for her and your intention to visit her again as soon as you can . |
| 4 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 5 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 6 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 7 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |
| 8 | In Sumatra , the northern highlands seem to have been begun to be cleared about 17500 BP but the firmest evidence is from 6200BP , while the central regions may have begun being cleared some 7500BP but certainly by 4000BP ; both areas had major clearances by 2500BP , perhaps associated with irrigated rice culture . |
| 9 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 10 | These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger , although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy ; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck , or simply reserved for a leisured elite . |
| 11 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
| 12 | ‘ Detective Eddy has received word from London that someone he wants to see is expected to be here today . |
| 13 | A GANG stealing to order are believed to be behind the theft a £28,000 Mercedes from an Ulster garage . |
| 14 | However , if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now . |
| 15 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |