Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to be [verb] " 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 | However , one set of simplicities is dismissed only to be replaced by another . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 6 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 7 | They were expected finally to be freed either late last night or , more likely , this weekend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I have not come here to be deported . |
| 12 | ‘ You have come here to be educated , ’ continued the fat man , ‘ so you will start working here tomorrow at six o'clock . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They may be designed primarily to be cut for hay or silage , for grazing , or for a combination of cutting and grazing . |
| 15 | Card 19 from the 600 and 700 basic pack also seems to have been designed specifically to be knitted in striped slip . |
| 16 | Every now and again rust pimples up , metallic lichen destined only to be beaten back by the lavish care and attention administered by Grant . |
| 17 | place , on the other hand , is a determination of space as a coincidence of event and geography that is itself productive of meaning : as if a film were made only to be seen in one place , not another . |
| 18 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 19 | With an unprotected pump , they are soon whizzed heavenwards to be discovered later , if they are lucky little fish , as unexpected guests in your filter . |
| 20 | But geology , is not done just to be applied . |
| 21 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 22 | They are made usually to be handled by the learner , but how often to you actually see nurses using the models ? |
| 23 | Most were notes , drafts of letters or memoranda concerning secret Yorkist plans as well as proclamations written anonymously to be nailed on the doors of churches up and down the kingdom . |
| 24 | To attract international investment , the Cook Islands have recently obtained permission from the Hong Kong stock exchange to allow offshore companies incorporated there to be listed on the exchange in Hong Kong . |
| 25 | They will almost certainly be used by specialists while all the basic material is created in much the same way as now , then transferred across to be assembled into the final document . |
| 26 | In the second chapter , which is the most elaborate and linguistically sophisticated part of the whole book , Nash examines stories from the so-called " women 's magazines " and also romances of the Mills & Boon type destined again to be read ( almost exclusively ? ) by women . |
| 27 | Very occasionally , they can be found on the eyelashes and eyebrows , but they are said never to be found higher than that . |
| 28 | Although Clinton continued to enjoy a consistent lead in the opinion polls , by the end of October the gap between the two candidates appeared to have closed sufficiently to be causing some alarm in the Democratic camp . |
| 29 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 30 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |