Example sentences of "they [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 2 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 3 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm talking about liking people , liking them enough to be friends . |
| 5 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 6 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 7 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 8 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 9 | You ca n't but peek at them just to be titillated , not really believing what they are saying , since they are concocted by charlatans . |
| 10 | On that occasion Moses urged them not to be afraid , and God responded immediately by ordering the preparations for his great act of salvation . |
| 11 | Enid : I would just give them a big hug and tell them not to be silly . |
| 12 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 13 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 14 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 15 | Reallocations will not be made automatically if the taxpayer has asked for them not to be . |
| 16 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |
| 18 | ‘ Mills laughed in their faces and told them not to be so silly . ’ |
| 19 | Non-career golfing ladies still comprise a majority of lady members and it probably does not make much practical difference to them not to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday morning since they have access to the courses at all other times . |
| 20 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 21 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 22 | Erm and we would suggest that in the light of these new environmental erm of these new requirements and advice , erm it would be unrealistic to er to expect them not to be taken into account in the structure plan and give greater emphasis to the environmental originally environmental concerns of the structure plan . |
| 23 | I long for them not to be there . |
| 24 | The Association says there was no reason for them not to be rented out . |
| 25 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 26 | DoubleClickSpeed=452 : Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click . |
| 27 | Princess Marie Louise borrowed the King 's dispatch boxes and sent them off to be copied . |
| 28 | He sent them off to be analysed by the Department of Agriculture 's Zoology Department . |
| 29 | Isaiah declares that God 's servant , whom Christians recognise as Jesus Christ , will be ‘ a light for the Gentiles ’ and that God himself ‘ will ‘ beckon ’ them , calling them forth to be part of his purposes of salvation to the ends of the earth' ( Isa. 42.6 ; 49:6 , 22 ) . |
| 30 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |