Example sentences of "and [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the names of all the venomous creatures in North and West Africa to be listed and the manufacturers of antiserums for their bites and stings to be contacted . |
| 2 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
| 3 | Some of the lesser forms of violence are almost routine and tend to be ignored by the police . |
| 4 | This demonstrates that there are indeed certain junctions which both tend to be rated as risky and tend to be recalled by many subjects . |
| 5 | Like the parties themselves , these coalitions are usually unstable , and tend to be based upon personalities and patronage rather than ideology . |
| 6 | Parasitised dogwhelks do not join breeding aggregations and tend to be distributed singly on the open shore . |
| 7 | It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter . |
| 8 | Shorter-term assets are kept at relatively low levels and tend to be used for investment transactions and repayment of loans . |
| 9 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 10 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 11 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 12 | Although populist , this element was staunchly unionist , often more so than the leadership , and expected to be rewarded for the ‘ loyalty ’ of the Protestant working class . |
| 13 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 14 | An ‘ authoring system ’ , called ‘ Kaleida ’ and expected to be released at the end of the year , will enable publishers or packagers to edit together text , sound , still and moving pictures . |
| 15 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 16 | Mr. Thorpe then approached me , his General Practitioner here in Barnstaple and asked to be referred to Professor Hitchcock . |
| 17 | Thousands of illegal immigrants in Japan have surrendered to police and asked to be deported , before a new anti-immigration law comes into effect . |
| 18 | Several plain-clothes detectives went further and telephoned a commentator on commercially-owned Ulster Television and asked to be quoted as anonymous detectives in the police division responsible for Rathcoole I who knew that no evidence whatsoever existed against the men arrested . |
| 19 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |
| 20 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 21 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 22 | The court heard she went to a taxi rank in Worksop and asked to be taken to an address where her mother lived . |
| 23 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |
| 24 | ‘ I was talking with Giles Brandon and Dawn came and asked to be introduced . |
| 25 | As they approached Streatley , he lost his nerve and asked to be dropped by the bridge . |
| 26 | He handed the plastic bag to the white-coated technician and asked to be told the moment the fingerprints were identified . |
| 27 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 28 | In July , NICRA 's executive committee was meeting in Kevin Agnew 's house in Maghera ; Currie had phoned Fred Heatley and asked to be allowed to put an idea to the committee , and he was invited to address the meeting . |
| 29 | This is necessary to determine the amount of cleaning , checking and editing to be done before deposition of the data with the Data Archive is possible . |
| 30 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |