Example sentences of "else to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing else to be done . |
| 2 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 3 | No one else to be afraid of . |
| 4 | With the Captain in his present mood , there was nothing else to be done . |
| 5 | He mentions Teucrium marum growing in the warm borders of Kensington palace Gardens in the early part of the century , clipped to conical forms three feet high , but there is little else to be found about eighteenth century palace gardens in the Dictionary . |
| 6 | There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy . |
| 7 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 8 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 9 | Predictably , he wanted above all else to be an actor but , when he had the chance of realising his ambition by working overseas , for some reason the Home Office refused an exit permit . |
| 10 | They will be so contaminated with the virus that there is nothing else to be done . |
| 11 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 12 | But I wanted to do it , because I did n't want anyone else to be speaking my ideas when it was such a personal statement . |
| 13 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 14 | But Hugh of Lyons counselled acceptance , and indeed there was little else to be done . |
| 15 | When the British papers printed that Scotland Yard believed the silver to have been dug up at the Barbariga army base and smuggled by a Yugoslav diplomat , the Federal commission said , ‘ The press is to be criticised for all such insinuations ’ and ‘ the control of the diplomatic bag is so rigorous in Jugoslavia that it is absolutely impossible for the treasure or anything else to be smuggled out that way ’ . |
| 16 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 17 | The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected . |
| 18 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 19 | This should be accurate enough for the findspot to be plotted on a map and for someone else to be able to find the location . |
| 20 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 21 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 22 | After some discussion , they felt that there was nothing else to be found on this site until the next ploughing and they would give it a miss until then . |
| 23 | " There was nothing else to be learned from Mrs. Bidwell . |
| 24 | I am sorry , but there 's nothing else to be done . |
| 25 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 26 | The mean ol' Gruzzles ca n't read and they do n't want any one else to be able to read so they have stolen all the words out of the books . |
| 27 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 28 | And he expects everybody else to be like that too . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not that , ’ Fabia began , certain in her heart that she had now scuppered every last chance of that interview with Ven , but with Cara having more than enough to worry about with Barney still so poorly , not wanting to give her something else to be upset about . |
| 30 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |