Example sentences of "and [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours for the approach march to the enemy 's encampment and everyone to be in position before the first hints of dawn . |
| 2 | And when , five minutes later , they made their way cautiously over the humpy grass into the heart of the ruins there was no one and nothing to be seen . |
| 3 | Ted would sometimes wonder if he had n't made Pete into a kind of surrogate son to fill the hole that Shaun had left … it was impossible to say for sure , and nothing to be ashamed of anyway . |
| 4 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 5 | Because there 's everything and nothing to be said , |
| 6 | God has called you and me to be members of His church . |
| 7 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 8 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 10 | The volunteers drew lots as to who was to be ‘ teacher ’ and who to be ‘ learner ’ , and the teacher saw the learner being strapped into a chair . |
| 11 | China 's rush to capitalism is also a rush towards individual liberty : the chance to choose not just fancy clothes and fast cars but how to live , where to live and who to be ruled by . |
| 12 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 13 | Good external lighting with heat sensors is a different matter , and one to be commended — the Electricity Board or an NICEIC contractor will fit these for you . |
| 14 | Surely being the country which gave rugby to the world , our all-white strip is part of the game and one to be proud of . |
| 15 | The objector is forgetting its point ; it is both provisional and one to be argued over . |
| 16 | The serious block-buster , the soap-boxing historical sage , is a growing phenomenon ( see Zoe/3 Fairbairns ' Stand We At Last , Robin Morgan 's Dry Your Smile , Meredith Tax 's Passionate Women ) , and one to be welcomed in many respects : trash with brain cells is a legitimate vehicle for conveying a serious message on a mass-market scale . |
| 17 | In short , feminist was an exciting identity and one to be proud of . |
| 18 | The phenomenon of the bulk of the population surviving infancy and living well into their 70s and 80s is quite new and something to be proud of . |
| 19 | Spring , our particular spring , is always late and something to be talked about . |
| 20 | in effect , using BSL in further and higher education is still seen by many as part of the ‘ handicap of deafness ’ and something to be overcome in education rather than used . |
| 21 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
| 22 | This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of . |
| 23 | Telling us all how we would have to adapt in various minor ways to changing circumstances , but that basically our lives would carry on very much as normal — and it was weird , I was wanting them all to believe him , and him to be telling the truth . |