Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dmitri , typing letters of thanks for the Freud books sent by American friends , was a little irritated to be interrupted . |
| 2 | Jiang is widely expected to be named China 's president in addition to his current post during the annual meeting of the National People 's Congress that begins on Monday . |
| 3 | Gamsakhurdia 's term was to last only until direct presidential elections which the Supreme Soviet scheduled for May 26 , but he was widely expected to be returned to office . |
| 4 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 5 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 6 | One favourite medium of attack in Iraq was the newspaper cartoon , with spectacularly uncomplimentary portrayals in the Baath Party newspaper al-Thawrah of the three chief objects of the leadership 's hostility — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin , Syria 's President Hafez al-Asad and of course Khomeini , on one occasion presented , at a time when Iran was widely reported to be cutting oil prices to boost sales volume , as a door-to-door kerosine street pedlar calling out , ‘ Naft ! |
| 7 | We are greatly honoured to be allowed to participate in this celebration . |
| 8 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |
| 9 | In the Arctic , few northern polar taxa are sufficiently differentiated to be called endemic species . |
| 10 | The best-known , however , is the Contes moralisés ( probably written after 1320 ) , a collection of prose stories and exempla illustrating some moral point , which were perhaps intended to be used in sermons . |
| 11 | By contrast numerous Upper Palaeolithic interments extending from western Europe to Siberia were sufficiently respected to be buried clothed and accompanied by their personal finery . |
| 12 | Although he was still sufficiently trusted to be appointed as one of the young Edward 's guardians when the prince was sent abroad to do homage for his father 's French lands in September 1325 , a year later he had become one of the leading backers of Queen Isabella in her invasion of England . |
| 13 | The social survey makes use of the interview and/or the questionnaire , a method of data collection obviously designed to be administered to individuals . |
| 14 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 15 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 16 | It must be of immense value today , in fact probably some of the work is too highly priced to be allowed out into the schools for which it was bought . |
| 17 | So it 's not only got to be done , that 's the problem . |
| 18 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 19 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 20 | The case was noteworthy for the fact that a section hitherto thought to be aimed only at espionage had been employed against peaceful protesters . |
| 21 | These were also sufficiently condensed to be poured into a flexible plastic ‘ dosing ’ ball . |
| 22 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 23 | The second guidance was in respect of roads , and much needed to be done in this regard . |
| 24 | The Tate collections have long needed to be split : traditional British art in the present building ; modern British ( twentieth-century , or post-1945 ? ) and foreign Schools elsewhere , except perhaps for the jumbo Moore bronzes , which could be recycled for a Thatcher monument , or other suitable purposes . |
| 25 | Buildings constantly needed to be expanded or replaced . |
| 26 | We 've all got to be looking over our shoulders . |
| 27 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 28 | Once legislative proposals are sufficiently advanced to be put to Ministers for endorsement they will go before the Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which must give its approval before a place is found in the programme . |
| 29 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 30 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |