Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 2 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 3 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 4 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 5 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 6 | Recommendations are also sought from the Area Education Officers , although these do not appear always to be forthcoming . |
| 7 | But in the sphere of education , the concept would appear still to be flourishing , even if in a somewhat limited form , as stated above . |
| 8 | Although one can speak also of being aware of the value of something , it will be essential to confine our usage to awareness of the existing , of persons , things , events . |
| 9 | Interest due on debts which are preferential under s 386 of and Sched 6 to the Act would not appear also to be preferential . |
| 10 | We must invest now to be ready . ’ |
| 11 | This snowstorm might put them off , but we would do well to be extra watchful tonight . ’ |
| 12 | This is highly regarded and influential in police circles and the social worker would do well to be aware of its thinking . |
| 13 | There are , as Mr Moynihan points out , only seven countries in the world that can claim both to be homogeneous and to have no border problems . |
| 14 | I , I do n't remember really to be honest but I , I erm erm Malcolm said something once which so I was n't surprised , you know , ca n't remember exactly what . |
| 15 | The arts enable us to assert ideas and judgments which we may recognize collectively to be true which can not be proved in other ways , through empirical experiment , for instance . |
| 16 | Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest . |
| 17 | After the first few lessons it is important to take it easy and not rush around as this may undo the teacher 's work and the process will take longer to be effective . |
| 18 | If you knew Ted , and you probably do judging by the amount of Christmas cards he gets , then you would think twice about being wicked and disruptive for the sake of it . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey , with which we are immediately concerned , there are by-roads which will prove eventually to be Romano-British in origin . |
| 20 | For the older child one warning of your intention to use this method would seem only to be fair . |
| 21 | This may seem only to be valid comment upon a fundamentalist ‘ wing ’ of Christianity . |
| 22 | Good luck to her , she knows she can get away with being sexy and saucy . |
| 23 | Do n't let them get away with being patronising , because that 's probably the attitude they 'll take up . ’ |
| 24 | Interiors do not of course cease thereafter to be important to the writer — but their nature has changed , partly in the way that Lawrence predicted . |
| 25 | The inclusion of this demand , in the context of feminism , may seem now to be obvious , but the struggle to make sexuality a respectable platform was an acrimonious one . |