Example sentences of "[adv] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general principle of proportional representation is surely a more democratic one than any system which tends to over-represent majorities at the cost of under-representing minorities — if they are lucky enough to be represented at all . |
| 2 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 3 | Secretan arrived at the same conclusion : ‘ It is scarcely to be wondered at that youthful craving for variety and excitement sometimes leads gangs of boys to try and put a little colour into their leisure hours in ways which lead to conflict with authority or to degradation of character . |
| 4 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 5 | In Search of a Past affects not to be written at all — so much as researched , recorded and compiled . |
| 6 | sometimes they turn out to be brothers , or cousins , or sometimes not to be related at all . ’ |
| 7 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 8 | There will be a price to be paid , but it 's not to be undertaken at any price . |
| 9 | The remaining vacancies were not to be filled at all , so that the new House of Commons was to be significantly smaller than the old . |
| 10 | More work on government projects helped close the gap left by cash-strapped home-owners — not as profitable as kitting out private homes , but not to be sneezed at either . |
| 11 | Their culture was not to be considered at all in the constitution . |
| 12 | Note , that MODULE7 , MODULE9 and LFPACK2 are not to be entered at this time . |
| 13 | Not to be changed at this date ; |
| 14 | Providing that the castration is restricted to cutting off the testicles alone ( sometimes the whole kit would go ) , it is possible for a man 's libido and ability to indulge in intercourse not to be reduced at all . |
| 15 | If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions . |
| 16 | It just shows that bargains are still to be had at such sales , and most are not nicked . |
| 17 | Ianthe was reminded of her meeting with the nun in the Underground the day before and Sophia remarked that nowadays some of them seemed hardly to be cloistered at all . |
| 18 | Other INSET and resources support was also to be organised at this point . |
| 19 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |