Example sentences of "to be to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
2 | I think the first thing is to improve the appearance , because the area itself appears to me to be to be thriving . |
3 | Again , perhaps a point of clarification to be to be helpful . |
4 | Er and it was felt appropriate at the time that that should be indicated on the T the key diagram to be to be helpful more than nothing else . |
5 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
6 | Well to be to be honest to be honest er I have n't got children . |
7 | Now you know , to be to be honest I was talking about it , I could n't tell you what the average percent is from last year . |
8 | Either we can influence and help that to be to be good or or you know if that 's a failure then see whether they can help us to produce one for the town . |
9 | Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds . |