Example sentences of "is [pron] to be [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Of course there is no-one to be compared to Jesus . |
| 2 | When they reach Jericho , five miles the other side of the river , there is no-one to be seen . |
| 3 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , there is nothing to be done about this . |
| 5 | There is nothing to be done . |
| 6 | The trick in bringing about a change in attitudes towards marketing is to go after the easy stuff first , there is nothing to be gained from knocking your head against a brick wall . |
| 7 | There is nothing to be gained by translating dollars into pounds in this story any more than doing it in a bank , so the money is untouched . |
| 8 | All this will be done privately because there is nothing to be gained by castigating him in public . |
| 9 | There is nothing to be gained by attempting to force parents into accepting definitions of problems which they do not recognise as important or relevant , despite what you as a professional may think . |
| 10 | If we recognise that professionals do not have ownership of problems and that it is the primary managers ( parents ) who sort out problems , there is nothing to be gained by giving a contrary impression to parents . |
| 11 | While there is nothing to be gained by scolding an individual being sick , you should take action to prevent whining or barking , giving a firm ‘ no ’ by way of command . |
| 12 | Now that free banking is available to everyone who keeps their Current Account in credit , there is nothing to be gained by keeping substantial amounts of money there . |
| 13 | ‘ John has a better chance of being released if the kidnappers realize there is nothing to be gained by hanging on to him . |
| 14 | He had chosen to see trade as linear rather than circular , upward rather than lateral , egotistical rather than mutual : ‘ When all nations are traders , there is nothing to be gained by trade , and it will stop first where it is brought to the greatest perfection . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There is nothing to be gained by opening up this particular Pandora 's box , ’ he added . |
| 16 | There is nothing to be gained by a hasty and wrong decision . ’ |
| 17 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 18 | There is nothing to be said , however , for this half-baked system of the ERM . |
| 19 | Now one of the tall windows on the front room stands open to the warm evening air , but there is nothing to be made out in the darkness of the room beyond . |
| 20 | There is nothing to be seen on the spot but bare earth . |
| 21 | There is nothing to be seen , but the reconstruction in the imagination is tangible . |
| 22 | If a whole company are gamesters , play must cease ; for there is nothing to be won . ’ |
| 23 | What a mind is Mr Kaufman 's , so sure there is nothing to be learned but what it wishes to learn , so serenely confident in its own perfected little judgement of what is a great and complex tragedy . |
| 24 | While rejecting the detailed application of management approaches from an industrial or commercial environment into schools , we should not fall into the belief that there is nothing to be learned from such experience — for in the right conditions there is . |
| 25 | The disappointment in the parents , the justified reproach that they do not get from the parents what they need , leads to youth 's contempt of civilization , of cultural tradition , and to the opinion that there is nothing to be learned from the history of human development . |
| 26 | She is very brave , which is plenty to be going on with . |
| 27 | They do n't want to be what the presenters do n't want is somebody to be pressing the button , hopping from channel to channel . |
| 28 | Various surface features on that world seem to show for certain that the planet has , in the past , enjoyed running water , but today there is none to be seen . |
| 29 | One solution is a clause which says that the question of categorising disputes in contracts where there are two different modes of dispute resolution is itself to be referred to the expert for final decision . |
| 30 | Either because its causal impact is outweighed by structural considerations ( a possibility that will be discussed in Chapter vi ) , or because it is itself to be explained as the effect of social wholes and their properties . |