Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
| 2 | Our supposed sample of university students might , just by chance , turn out to be nearly all from the faculty of law , which may be only a very small faculty . |
| 3 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 4 | Companies with well-established brands , which are the best vehicles for such expansion , are likely to be increasingly few and far between — this explains the keen interest in and premium price paid for Rowntree . |
| 5 | It is too far removed from the contempt which he once showed his brother to be simply that . |
| 6 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 7 | Their purpose seems to be simply that of differentiating a clear staccato separation from the very mild non-legato separation in such places as those of ex.3d from the start of the ‘ Hunt ’ Quartet , K458 , or ex.3e from the start of the A major Quartet , K464 . |
| 8 | Just before it joins the urethra , the vas sprouts a small sac , the seminal vesicle , once thought to be a store for spermatozoa but now believed to be simply another gland which adds its secretion to the ejaculate . |
| 9 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 10 | Thirdly , they were a source of ideological arguments which would legitimate what , otherwise , would appear to be simply another military rising organized by discontented soldiers . |
| 11 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 12 | It is our belief — shared by a number of retailers — that Christmas will prove to be yet another false dawn as far as reawakening consumer confidence is concerned . |
| 13 | When you 're training a bird , however , there always seems to be yet another step . |
| 14 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 15 | In John 's Gospel , there appears to be yet another Simon , Simon Bar Jonas . |
| 16 | This film was obviously going to be yet another stage in Preston 's own decline and fall as a BBC producer . |
| 17 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 18 | Village foundation was to be yet another example of developing the total resources of the estate , and in such enterprises the landowner was supposed to display concern for his former tenants newly displaced . |
| 19 | Will the Secretary of State now give a guarantee that no sixth-form college student will be charged for activities in relation to the school curriculum , or is this to be yet another example of pay-as-you-learn under the Conservative Government ? |
| 20 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 21 | Workers are unworried by the erosion of W÷P resulting from increases in P , but they will strenuously resist the same erosion of W÷P resulting from reductions in W. At first blush this would appear to be yet another manifestation of the irrational phenomenon of money illusion affecting the supply of labour . |
| 22 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 23 | We do n't want to be here all day ! |
| 24 | Tarrah there I think I think we 'd better leave it there otherwise we are going to be here all day . |
| 25 | And I do n't worry because I 'm not going to be here this time tomorrow . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would have liked to be here this evening because I know well that he has been a tremendous support to my hon. and learned Friend and his family in many small and touching ways , which I know have been deeply appreciated . |
| 27 | It is my great pleasure to be here this morning to express my sincere gratitude to you , my fellow members , for electing me as your National President for 1993/94 . |
| 28 | ‘ I was rather hoping he was going to be here this afternoon . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm delighted to be here this morning . |
| 30 | I like to be here half an hour before the service . |