Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 2 | Lipschitz notes that ‘ while feminist therapists can attempt the abolition of inhibition in empowering practices , they can not abolish repression … to suggest this is to abolish the unconscious ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) . |
| 3 | Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct . |
| 4 | To stress this is to labour the obvious , but it underlines the point that no one can know exhaustively how he knows what he knows . |
| 5 | The best way to achieve this is to place the front hand on the mast below the boom as you lean the rig back . |