Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 2 | This is because an AND gate needs both inputs to be Logic 1 for the output to be Logic 1 . |
| 3 | ‘ Battle of Britain ’ made his racing debut at Wolverhampton in April 1991 and since then , the colt trained in Lancashire by Jack Berry , has certainly proved to be winner as the photograph shows . |
| 4 | No but , yeah but Merridown , Merri Merridown has never professed to be scrumpy . |
| 5 | All I 've done since seems to be walk around and knock on doors . |
| 6 | Prince Johnson , the rebel who sliced off Doe 's ears before ( according to Mr Johnson ) forcing him to eat one while Mr Johnson chewed on the other , has given up asking to be president but is now surrounded by a team of ‘ advisers ’ . |
| 7 | Before that can happen there has to be peace in Afghanistan , and that prospect looks as remote as the end to the drug traffic . |
| 8 | Only two trade unions indicated that they did not want to be part of the SZOT confederation . |
| 9 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 10 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 11 | One rectangular building straddled the compound fence with an annexe attached on the inside from which there did not appear to be access to the compound . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Elizabeth did not live to be Queen . |
| 13 | But Britain did not have to be part of that unity ; it could only be associated with it . |
| 14 | Victorians like George Eliot did not need to be expert in iconography ( the reading of this painting is still disputed ) in order to sense in such interiors a spiritual meaning in material things . |
| 15 | Beautiful as the creature is , and instructive as the study of its behaviour has been , the octopus did not prove to be god 's organism for the elucidation of memory . |
| 16 | What we are witnessing , I fear , is the birth of a new and dangerously illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy designed to accommodate Dr Akhtar and his fundamentalist friends , who do not pretend to be part of the Western liberal tradition . |
| 17 | Many women , especially if they have a lesbian or feminist identity , do not want to be part of the male power structure that the male-dominated homophile groups have : those women with a commitment to women tend to form their own groups . |
| 18 | I do not want to be part of some supposedly dominant united states of Europe which , it is argued , would exert a similar influence to the United States of America and the now defunct USSR in world affairs . |
| 19 | I am sure others like me do not want to be part of this . |
| 20 | ‘ For myself , I do not wish to be family , ’ he murmured , his glance sweeping over her pale face . |
| 21 | You do not need to be chairman of the meeting to wield power , various other roles and devices will also serve your purpose . |
| 22 | But even without challenging such realism , I would argue that values , by being made dependent on consciousness , do not cease to be part of the fabric of the world . |
| 23 | At the other end of the scale , alternations between the active and the agentless passive studied by Weiner and Labov do not seem to be candidate variables in any sense parallel to the concept of the phonological variable . |
| 24 | Meetings do not have to be decision-making . |
| 25 | But it 's self employed and you did n't want to be self employed by what you 've just told me . |
| 26 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 27 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 28 | When the Manchester thing was happening we did ‘ The Beast Inside ’ because we did n't want to be part of what was going on . |
| 29 | ‘ If you did n't want to be part of my ‘ performance ’ , ’ she said sharply , ‘ you should have kept out of it . ’ |
| 30 | Surely she did n't want to be number four ? |