Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 2 | It is a peculiarity of this disease that the disease itself creates a wish not to be cured or only to be cured if and when the patient decides to cure himself or herself , which may well be too late . |
| 3 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 4 | Examples of the second type are cases such as Davies , Turner and Co v Lowen ( 1891 ) 64 LT 655 in which a clause sought to prevent an employee entering any business similar to that " now or hereafter to be carried on " by the employer ; or Perls v Saalfeld [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 149 in which a clause preventing an employee from accepting " another situation as clerk or agent " was struck down . |
| 5 | But the essential distinction remains : whether the court should positively order treatment to be given or not to be given , or whether it should do no more than consider whether or not to authorise it , where authority is needed . |
| 6 | Yeah , or somebody 's changed and cos they say to be or not to be does n't fit in as well where it is and it should of been |
| 7 | Sometimes executives have , in effect , a choice as to whether or not to be dismissed . |
| 8 | When I was a little lad I always thought that the dilemma to be or not to be had something to do with choosing pencils ( surely 2B or not 2B ? ! ) |
| 9 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 10 | Thus , if insider dealing enables ‘ everything known about the company whether public or not to be reflected in the price of that company 's shares ’ then investors ( outsiders ) are unlikely to undertake investments ‘ blind-sided ’ by developments not yet reflected in the current prices of the shares . |
| 11 | Someone who put 20p into the guitar case also left his Evening Standard , possibly as part-payment or just to be rid of it . |
| 12 | It is the stuff of or the basis of all the relations specified so far or still to be specified between cause and effect , causal circumstance and effect , and nomic correlates . |
| 13 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
| 14 | How widely this reservation is to be applied in practice has sooner or later to be defined by the Court of Justice . |
| 15 | Since cannibalistic tadpoles feed preferentially on partially metamorphosed or weaker individuals , there would be a tendency for those likely to hatch earlier or later to be weeded out . |
| 16 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 17 | The prisoner was forbidden all human rights , to communicate with his family , to be represented by a lawyer , to protest against the torture , or even to be put on trial . |
| 18 | Incidentally , you will have shown your ability to accept a brief on either side , or even to be promoted to the Bench . |
| 19 | It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained . |
| 20 | This showed that we have now implemented the majority of the recommendations while the remainder are either well in hand or about to be tackled . |
| 21 | Clearly the range of the Act is very limited , applying only to lucid adult patients connected or about to be connected to a ventilator who are suffering from a terminal condition ( as defined ) and who execute the appropriate directive.33 A first step , however , has been taken in clarifying the law . |
| 22 | They have developed a revolutionary new radar system , the Type 966 , which is fitted , or about to be fitted , to Invincible-class aircraft-carriers , the Type 42 Sheffield-class destroyers and the new Type 23 Norfolk-class frigates . |
| 23 | There is no parallel here with punishment for attempts and other inchoate offences , because there is no proof that the defendant was aiming to do something harmful : the harmfulness of the action is supposedly constituted by the indecent motive , not by anything actually done , or about to be done , to the victim . |
| 24 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 25 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 26 | A motorist entering Scotland via the A74(M) could , for instance , be advised if the A9 was closed or about to be closed because of snow , or if the Forth Road Bridge was affected by high winds . |
| 27 | In some of its uses , the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized . |
| 28 | She is aware of ‘ something lovely somewhere , something that is gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained ’ , but why this urge to scream her head off at the sight of an uncleared breakfast table ? |
| 29 | And yet she was aware of something lovely somewhere , something that was gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained : she supposed her therapist would say that this unrealistic shard of broken vision dated back to her infancy , when the human animal believes itself to be omnipotent , immortal and an integral part of all that is . |
| 30 | A large proportion of these anti-social crimes are committed by young people who are on bail or yet to be tried — people who laugh at the law while continuing to break it . |