Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 2 | But there are problems even with this more sophisticated test , because it could be argued that to examine those who were as a matter of fact interested in science is to skew the sample . |
| 3 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 4 | It is intended to be a user friendly guide and available to both employers and employees who may be considering whether to establish such schemes . |
| 5 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 6 | Where there is a contractual right to the costs , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised as to reflect that contractual right . |
| 7 | However , it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk . |
| 8 | Embalming a monarch allowed for public examination of the corpse , not only to prove to all and sundry that the monarch was indeed dead but also to let the rightful heir be acclaimed and to deter any pretenders . |
| 9 | But to understand fully why and how they are allowed to do this , the above questions must be tackled and to do this I need to document the black kids ' experiences at two levels : the family and the school . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 3 ) Generally to execute any deed or sign any document which may be required and to do any other act matter or thing which the attorney shall consider necessary or expedient for carrying out any of the purposes or acts hereby authorised . |