Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 2 | ‘ I am honoured even to be thought Inspector Rose 's Watson , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 4 | These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level , which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable . |
| 5 | The 343 workers whose sackings led to Britain 's most bitter industrial dispute since the late 1980s are to meet tomorrow to be told by the unions the details of the rundown package on offer . |
| 6 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 7 | Card 19 from the 600 and 700 basic pack also seems to have been designed specifically to be knitted in striped slip . |
| 8 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 9 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 10 | Many large companies are lobbying furiously to be allowed to build and operate bridges , roads and the like for profit under franchise . |
| 11 | Very occasionally , they can be found on the eyelashes and eyebrows , but they are said never to be found higher than that . |
| 12 | They are made usually to be handled by the learner , but how often to you actually see nurses using the models ? |
| 13 | They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting . |
| 14 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 15 | First , a series of dimensions are identified which have been agreed both to be important aspects of child development and/or of particular relevance to separated children . |
| 16 | Other forms of editing demand can also occur such as inserting information which was previously unavailable , or , combining two areas of information initially thought of as being independent but which are shown later to be related . |
| 17 | Thus two apparently unrelated discussions : the notion of autonomy in relation to the public-private distinction , and pornography , are shown here to be intimately related .4 |
| 18 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 19 | The consultants are thought still to be some way off publishing their preferred route options for the M12 scheme . |
| 20 | Our model , although it requires more than one site of learning , accounts for data from multiple laboratories and reconciles observations that had been thought previously to be contradictory . |
| 21 | I had often been called there to be punished . |
| 22 | Several Ahmadis are known currently to be serving prison sentences for using Muslim phrases of greeting . |
| 23 | Instead of writing a story in which , say , at some crucial point the detective realises that the gun beside the corpse is not the one that fired the fatal shot , you will be writing a story in which the detective will perhaps realise that the theory of the murder being motivated by greed can not be correct because the suspect has been found unexpectedly to be secretly most generous . |
| 24 | The reader 's expectations are elicited only to be thwarted . |
| 25 | They may be designed primarily to be cut for hay or silage , for grazing , or for a combination of cutting and grazing . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 27 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 28 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've got to die to be dropped from our Fourths , and then it 's best to be cremated just to be on the safe side . |
| 30 | ‘ These arguments ( against fast foods ) use lack of balance to dramatize a point that would be seen instantly to be ludicrous if presented reasonably . |