Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , after thrashing Widnes and a superb performance in losing at St Helens last Sunday , there are signs the Headingley faithful are about to be rewarded . |
| 2 | The most popular is briefly to pressure-cook the nuts . |
| 3 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 4 | ‘ The following are not to be resuscitated : very frail elderly , over 65 years . |
| 5 | In small and incomplete orchestras , however , such combinations as the following are often to be found : |
| 6 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 7 | Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you . |
| 8 | To be masculine is not to be feminine . |
| 9 | The leaves growing submerged are up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and 6ins ( 16cms ) broad , light green , translucent , deeply heart-shaped and crinkled . |
| 10 | The few areas which had escaped collectivization because they seemed too poor were now to be brought into line . |
| 11 | Accelerated promotion in an East Indiaman was only to be obtained through political or family interest , such as that exerted by the Earl of Findlater upon James Oswald of Dunnikier . |
| 12 | The care for the poor was not to be undertaken by private charity as and when people decided to give but was to be organised by the society . |
| 13 | Football , and Oxford United are through to the second round of the Coca-Cola cup . |
| 14 | In League division 2 , Oxford United are away to Plymouth Argyll , the manager Brian Horton may spring a surprise and include John Durning who is fit again . |
| 15 | They were the one side he dare not lose sight of and United are off to Highbury at the weekend only four points adrift . |
| 16 | In the third division Hereford United are off to Rochdale … their one and only away in the league this season was at Darlington back in August … time for another |
| 17 | Hereford United are off to Wales too . |
| 18 | But United were n't to be denied , Mike Ford 's shot was deflected across the face of the goal and there was Andy Melville to poke the ball into the corner of the net , United to continue to come forward , but continued to waste chances that came their way . |
| 19 | I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous . |
| 20 | In part two:Buy-out … the Maxwell share of Oxford United is about to be sold . |
| 21 | ‘ TO BE ANGRY IS NOT TO BE HUMAN , BUT TO BE FEARFUL IS ’ : Chewong concepts of human nature |
| 22 | Lairds , and even peers , found it worth their while to seek the attention of their friends among the lords of parliament when an appeal in which they were concerned was about to be considered . |
| 23 | Obviously something important was about to be announced . |
| 24 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
| 25 | The domination of finance capital and of capital in general is not to be abolished by any reforms in the sphere of political democracy ; and self-determination belongs wholly to this sphere . |
| 26 | It should go without saying these days that to be suffering from something psychosomatic is not to be guilty of lack of moral fibre , but to be exhibiting a condition the cause of which is , at least in part , psychological . |
| 27 | If the regret of the bereaved was not to be alleviated by continuing remembrance and hope of reunion , the whole process became one from which it was better to avert the eyes . |
| 28 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 29 | The unmentionable is now to be mentioned : in fact , six years before Lady Chatterley 's Lover went into paperback , it is wheeled centre-stage . |
| 30 | Until the sudden realisation that the world 's best kept secret was about to be broken , Ashe , because of special affinity with Yannick Noah and his own long run as the United States Davis Cup captain , had probably been reading with interest about the rise and fall of Noah as captain of the French Davis Cup Team . |