Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also purist considerations : should the integrity of the original object be maintained , or may it be tampered with to display it to its best advantage ? |
| 2 | To be credible , it must be in a firm ‘ s best interest to carry out the threat at the time it is called upon to do so . |
| 3 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 4 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 5 | It is obviously in an uncomfortably contradictory position — squeezed between the expectations of the bureaucracies on which it relies and its political affiliation to the struggles of the mass of blacks which it is called upon to mediate , translate and sometimes police . |
| 6 | A good thesaurus or list of subject headings is not necessarily one that has been carefully presented , printed and published , with a plethora of effective relationship displays , but rather a list that has been compiled to serve in the retrieval environment in which it is called upon to operate . |
| 7 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 8 | Because , as you 'll remember , it is frowned upon to begin a sentence with and , and I always cross it out in your essays , do n't I . |
| 9 | True , a state-of-the-art aerobatic machine is expensive , but if we are to represent our county at major championships in a competitive manner then it is required of to run competitive machines . |
| 10 | No country , however rich , can permanently afford to have quartered upon its revenue a class which declined to do the duty which it was called upon to perform . ’ |
| 11 | In its Report of 1973 , the Royal Commission on the Constitution ( the Kilbrandon Commission ) detected three vices in the then-existing constitutional structure of the United Kingdom which it was called upon to review . |