Example sentences of "it [adv] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorigo did the baddest tackle and got away with it only to be booked later . |
| 2 | So he took it in to be looked at . |
| 3 | Labour Members like the idea that one can formulate the blueprint in Brussels and hand it down to be followed in every corner of the Community . |
| 4 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 5 | Harris would have kept her name out of it and she had forgotten , in her agitation , to ask for it not to be revealed . |
| 6 | This feeling was greatly strengthened when , six months later , Sir Robert was again approached about the Suez programme and again asked for it not to be shown . |
| 7 | A Formula 1-style wing is obviously part of the package — it 's important enough to the prototype 's aerodynamics for it not to be excluded from its testing programme . |
| 8 | Between Rudolfo and the gamekeeper there 's just enough of the land being cultivated for it not to be confiscated . |
| 9 | Consultant anaesthetist Dr Mike Jordan , who has been on the planning team for nine years , adds : ‘ It would be crazy for it not to be used . |
| 10 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 11 | Alternatively , it might be said that the talk about words conveying ideas it not to be taken seriously . |
| 12 | Diane filled in an order form for a Jenner Clinic catalogue and took it over to be processed while Reynolds waited , arms folded and leaning against a pillar by the card files . |
| 13 | Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me . |
| 14 | Should it unfortunately prove necessary , will my right hon. Friend make arrangements for it possibly to be introduced without notice and simultaneously after consultation with the Government of the Republic of Ireland ? |
| 15 | ‘ You realize there 's the best part of four million pounds in those contracts — most of it still to be paid to us . ’ |
| 16 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
| 17 | The argument might be put forward , therefore , that the treatment slows the body clock enough for it now to be adjusted to a 24-hour day by normal time-cues . |
| 18 | He spoke of ‘ the type of person who always offers to wash up after a party ; the type of person who , winning a prize in a raffle , will give it back to be re-raffled ’ . |
| 19 | I saw an elderly lady with half a lifetime of raffles behind her and half a dozen tea cosies in her drawer , winning yet another tea cosy and , smiling , handing it back to be re-raffled . |
| 20 | She 's sending it back to be cleaned ! |
| 21 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 22 | Is it then to be concluded that the Cromer area has been downwarped at least 70 m since the Cromerian interglacial , or , if such an amount of downwarping seems to be excessive , that the sea level of the Cromerian interglacial was not as high as 70 m above the present ? |
| 23 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 24 | Read it again to be heard by eight or ten adults in your sitting-room , and again to be heard in a big hall , allowing time for your voice to travel to the back of the hall . |