Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These citizens will be served by instruments of Government at Union level , which are intended eventually to be made democratically accountable . |
| 2 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 3 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 4 | However , it was intended only to be a ‘ provisional ’ arrangement until Germany could be reunited . |
| 5 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 6 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 7 | Some plants , among them species of myrtle , produce two kinds of pollen , one that fertilises their flowers , and another of a particularly tasty kind that is designed only to be eaten . |
| 8 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 9 | If the published rates were basically those applicable to the Home Counties and tended to decline proportionately to the distance from the metropolis , many labourers and servants in the provinces may not have earned enough to be assessed . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 11 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 12 | They were expected finally to be freed either late last night or , more likely , this weekend . |
| 13 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 14 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 15 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 16 | Supporters of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia were reported still to be active in western Georgia around Zugdidi ( near Abkhazia ) , where there were sporadic attacks and fighting between " Zviadists " and government troops . |
| 17 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 18 | Much rarer are F minor and especially B♭ minor , deemed respectively to be ‘ gloomy and plaintive ’ and ‘ gloomy and terrible ’ Campra uses each once only F minor in a scene describing death in ‘ La tragédie ’ , Les Muses ( 1703 ) and B♯ minor in his ballet Aréthuse ( 1701 ) to evoke the Underworld . |
| 19 | The informant was expected usually to be the person 's nearest relative . |
| 20 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — Colombia was reported yesterday to be seeking the extradition of a suspected cocaine baron held in neighbouring Ecuador as a wave of bombings , believed to have been carried out by drug traffickers , continued . |
| 21 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation . |
| 22 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 23 | ‘ I have not come here to be deported . |
| 24 | ‘ You have come here to be educated , ’ continued the fat man , ‘ so you will start working here tomorrow at six o'clock . ’ |
| 25 | Even before the dispute began one woman had come forward to be a shop steward . |
| 26 | They may be designed primarily to be cut for hay or silage , for grazing , or for a combination of cutting and grazing . |
| 27 | This is essentially a distinction between assessment as an integral part of the curriculum and assessment which is designed primarily to be a form of communication serving the needs of the outside world . |
| 28 | A statue in the round was surely conceived as in some sense a being to be met face to face , so was designed primarily to be seen from in front . |
| 29 | They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting . |
| 30 | Card 19 from the 600 and 700 basic pack also seems to have been designed specifically to be knitted in striped slip . |