Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include the specialist locating devices that enable the ferret 's progress underground to be monitored and its exact position to be discovered . |
| 2 | It was Ellie Milligan 's intention never to be caught crying in public again . |
| 3 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 4 | The most significant element of TML 's work still to be completed is commissioning , which includes the design and installation of a complex and comprehensive software system for all data control and transmissions networks . |
| 5 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 6 | It is the firm 's policy not to be associated with any published document which is false or misleading . |
| 7 | The contemporary historian John Manningham relates that it was the Queen 's wish not to be so treated and that this was obeyed , her body being ‘ … wrapt up in cerecloth , and that very ill too ’ . |
| 8 | Now I understood Francis 's will not to be so simple a matter , also that he had believed I knew about it . |
| 9 | That bitch 's turn now to be superseded ! |
| 10 | Expect BT 's application quietly to be dropped once the deal has gone through . |
| 11 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 12 | If he loses , he will be the first sitting mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 13 | If he loses , he will be the first sitting mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 14 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 15 | ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen . |
| 16 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 17 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |