Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen years after the incident the issue was again before the Privy Council in a case inevitably to be known as The Wagon Mound ( No 2 ) [ 19671 1 AC 617 . |
| 2 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 3 | But she would be a sheep indeed to be ruled only by that . |
| 4 | Well I mean you never actually got much of a response before to be quite honest with you |
| 5 | To die : to sleep ; No more ; and , by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to , ‘ t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish 'd . |
| 6 | It hardly matters whether there 's a ghost there to be seen or not — what matters is whether someone is convinced he saw it . |
| 7 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ protagonists , on the other hand , tend to see parental rights as a force still to be reckoned with in law , agency practice and social attitudes . |
| 8 | The history of education is littered with discarded phrases , phrases which were once fashionable and seemed to encapsulate the spirit of a Utopia soon to be born . |
| 9 | ( 76 ) Joe Louis , destroying every fistic pretender who dared cross gloves with him , was a gladiator never to be forgotten . |
| 10 | Who the cunning ones may be who calculatingly steal a harem from exhausted combatants after a battle is a question yet to be answered . |
| 11 | A dance never to be altered |
| 12 | The first day of the offensive broke with cynical summer loveliness on a scene shortly to be one of unmitigated horror . |
| 13 | A year later , the hoped-for jewel in the Next Steps crown , the Benefits Agency , will be up and away with its headquarters in a place still to be determined . |
| 14 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 15 | So I hope you see , that this Aldershot method which several people have mentioned is is a very effective way of structuring what you do here it can also be used very simply in in a meeting just to be able to put your point across simply but effectively . |
| 16 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 17 | The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade has recommended that spent nuclear fuel from the country 's nuclear power plants be made safe through deep burial at a site yet to be determined . |
| 18 | He might be told that his client ( a ) has been arrested on a serious charge , ( b ) might be arrested on a charge yet to be defined , or that ( c ) the police are following a line of enquiry . |
| 19 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 20 | Item — Why did the King leave Edinburgh on such a night just to be with his Queen ? |
| 21 | Shareholders will be offered the alternative of buying six new shares for every four held , at a price still to be set , or of taking three shares and three bonds with warrants making them convertible into shares at a later date . |
| 22 | Shareholders will be offered the alternative of buying six new shares for every four held , at a price still to be set , or else taking three shares and three bonds carrying warrants making them convertible into shares at a later date . |
| 23 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 24 | Although Schedule 17 comes into force only on a day still to be appointed , when it does come into force it seems it will apply in relation to debt instruments already in existence . |
| 25 | Then it seemed that the Lebanese civil war was one of those historical tragedies in which opposing communities fought themselves to a standstill only to be reconciled by a central government and foreign economic assistance . |
| 26 | The barman usually called Jack by his Christian name and Jack knew ‘ Mr Pertwee ’ was a mark never to be repeated , of the respect due to a bridegroom . |
| 27 | The man had every caution given him not a minute before to be careful with the gun , but his time was come as his poor shipmates say and with that they console themselves … |
| 28 | As we describe in a paper soon to be published by the Brookings Institution in Washington , DC , they should be required to make non-interest-bearing deposits with their central bank . |
| 29 | It is interesting to speculate that in the fetus the G cells may , by a means yet to be identified , lead to the disappearance of parietal cells in their immediate vicinity . |
| 30 | It is a method only to be used in a real emergency under medical supervision . |