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 | Someone who put 20p into the guitar case also left his Evening Standard , possibly as part-payment or just to be rid of it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How widely this reservation is to be applied in practice has sooner or later to be defined by the Court of Justice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Incidentally , you will have shown your ability to accept a brief on either side , or even to be promoted to the Bench . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In some of its uses , the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Diniz was not in the yard when he sought him , or anywhere to be found in the house . |
| 19 | The district officer in India had practically no chance for professional growth except possibly to be relocated , after a three-year stint , to a bigger district . |
| 20 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 21 | The Welsh Office is providing £2.7m of extra cash for the whole of Wales this year to help reduce waiting lists , and although yet to be finalised , Clwyd 's share could be around £400,000 , says health authority treasurer , Nigel Morris . |
| 22 | It is too poignant a metaphor of national uncertainty and demoralisation if that gorgeous landmark in Kensington Gardens remains under scaffolding , neither to be demolished , nor yet to be repaired . |
| 23 | To fail in such a venture , to sing out ‘ Give us an ‘ O ’ and get no response , is to lose face and effectively to be deterred from making a similar attempt in the future . |
| 24 | HAVING long admired The Cricketers ‘ Who 's Who , edited annually by Ian Sproat , MP , I am pleased that The Cricketer is now and henceforward to be associated in its promotion with Lennard , the publishers . |
| 25 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 26 | Yet , at the same time , the process of obtaining material through interlending schemes is expensive and time-consuming , and only to be undertaken for groups of material which are infrequently needed by the library 's clientele , or which — because they are out-of-print — can not be purchased for library stock . |
| 27 | They are unthinkable , and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet , ’ wrote E.M . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ In order to prevent literary contracts being held up , I also suggest that a general power of attorney be given to me again only in a limited area and only to be used if Elinor be indisposed . ’ |
| 29 | While one can not produce rules for having advertising ideas , some guidelines for , as it were , the physical construction of advertisements can be proposed — if only to be ignored . |
| 30 | At least then you stood out , if only to be beaten up … |