Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 2 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 3 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 4 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 5 | Line 's paper takes a slightly different approach , estimating ( in 1983 ) the average cost of an inter-library borrowing to a requesting library in UK to be approximately £4 , and the average price of a book to be £10 plus £7 or £8 for acquisition and processing , and therefore deducing it to be cheaper to make five borrowings of a title before purchase . |
| 6 | It is quite possible Chaucer 's attitude to such explicitly serious literature was uncertain , appreciating its moral worth but also sensing it to be more than the " " litel hevynesse " " that " " is right ynogh for muche folk " " ( the Knight , in the epilogue of the Monk 's Tale , VII : 2769 – 70 ) , or to be preaching the " " inportable " " ( the Clerk 's Tale , IV : 1144 ) . |