Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These phenomena are observed too often for them to be the product of the individual 's development alone . |
| 2 | But there were eight in my family , so we could n't afford for me to be a pro — they did n't get paid ! |
| 3 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 4 | Tell you what , I would love to , like to for me to be a sergeant again and get someone like that in my troop fucking break him . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't convenient for me to be the subject of a whole lot of unpleasant rumours ! |
| 6 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 7 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 8 | This , however , was seen by some of them to be an unreliable criterion . |
| 9 | As Past President , , has said to me on more than one occasion , there is no finer Institute of which to be a member than the British Institute of Embalmers . |
| 10 | Trying in spite of herself to be a peacemaker . |
| 11 | Ought the criticism of her to be a thought subdued before the book comes out ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 13 | If , as might appear on the face of it to be the case , ss20-24 can only be breached by actual acts , no difficulty arises with MDPs . |
| 14 | A pastor exhorted each of us to be a rejoicing person , to be an encourager , to be solution-oriented and not problem-oriented . |
| 15 | That being so , will my right hon. Friend seek with his Community partners to reactivate the Venice declaration which seems to many of us to be the only likely forum within which positive political action can be taken ? |
| 16 | He went on to quote Michelet : ‘ A woman must breathe on you for you to be a man . |
| 17 | I can arrange for you to be an anonymous patient , so that it wo n't interfere with your prospects at all . ’ |
| 18 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 19 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 20 | The objection is that it is enough , for something to be a cause , that it is required for the occurrence of another event . |
| 21 | Together , we are the Church of the PRESENT — but we need to work as ONE to be the Church of the future ! |
| 22 | –Whyever do n't you take her home with you to be a lady 's maid ! ’ |
| 23 | While property which is vacant can resume its last lawful planning use , it is possible for there to be no use , in which case any new activity will require consent . |
| 24 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 25 | As capitalism had developed its disorganization , the tendency is for there to be no central manufacturing plants . |
| 26 | Indeed there remains sufficient slack in some sections of the labour force and enough new technological innovations on the horizon for there to be no end in sight to the continuing reduction in the number of workers in the industry . |
| 27 | Parliamentary sovereignty allows for there to be no limit on the power of the people 's elected representatives in Westminster . |
| 28 | That therefore there must bc no poor , and for there to be no poor there must be no rich . ’ |
| 29 | I thought that it was still possible for there to be a political link between the United Kingdom and India . |
| 30 | For a songwriter/artist who the music publisher believes has a good chance of success , it is quite usual for there to be a royalty split of 70:30 in favour of the writer . |