Example sentences of "and [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the names of all the venomous creatures in North and West Africa to be listed and the manufacturers of antiserums for their bites and stings to be contacted . |
| 2 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
| 3 | Bhawana loved animals and planned to be a vet . |
| 4 | Our international institutions are frail , fragile and tend to be powerless . |
| 5 | Queen olives are larger and tend to be a little darker in colour and stronger in flavour . |
| 6 | They range in size from five to twenty-five centimetres in length , and tend to be pink or brown , with fluffy tufts of spines ( setae ) protruding from each segment . |
| 7 | They are usually black or aluminium coloured and tend to be rather specialised and difficult to buy . |
| 8 | Some of the lesser forms of violence are almost routine and tend to be ignored by the police . |
| 9 | In reality , as pointed out above , these curves are likely to represent a ‘ best ’ case , as additions to a file are usually new customers , products , personnel , etc. and tend to be highly active , while they also have a high probability of being synonyms . |
| 10 | ‘ Our businesses cover a number of fronts , and tend to be cyclical , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Parasitised dogwhelks do not join breeding aggregations and tend to be distributed singly on the open shore . |
| 12 | The age of the organisation : many businesses and other organisations begin to grow through the efforts of a few individuals ( eg. owner-directors , or the founder of a political pressure group ) and tend to be highly centralised ( power culture ) . |
| 13 | Such chips are designed for varied use and tend to be mass-produced . |
| 14 | It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter . |
| 15 | Like the parties themselves , these coalitions are usually unstable , and tend to be based upon personalities and patronage rather than ideology . |
| 16 | This demonstrates that there are indeed certain junctions which both tend to be rated as risky and tend to be recalled by many subjects . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that the typical EPZ worker does not join a union because most unions are male-dominated and tend to be completely unresponsive to the needs of women workers . |
| 18 | " Organisational " reasons appear to overlap with " economic " reasons and tend to be where the purchaser , in merging his work force with the vendors , dismisses a person because the purchaser will have too many people doing the same job . |
| 19 | Shorter-term assets are kept at relatively low levels and tend to be used for investment transactions and repayment of loans . |
| 20 | She had known warmer climes and situations more civilized and now , in her old age , needed and expected to be warm . |
| 21 | Although populist , this element was staunchly unionist , often more so than the leadership , and expected to be rewarded for the ‘ loyalty ’ of the Protestant working class . |
| 22 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 23 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 25 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 26 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 27 | An ‘ authoring system ’ , called ‘ Kaleida ’ and expected to be released at the end of the year , will enable publishers or packagers to edit together text , sound , still and moving pictures . |
| 28 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 29 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 30 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |