Example sentences of "and be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 2 | any targets or standards of performance must have been previously agreed between employee and superior , or team colleagues , and be seen to be both sensible and reasonable |
| 3 | If the B Ed was a degree which enjoyed the status of all other first degrees , then it must be and be seen to be academically respectable . |
| 4 | I 'm stuck in a cell with a reeking bucket , and two hundred years to wait before justice can be done , and be seen to be done . |
| 5 | N C V O must therefore , draw together voluntary organisations effectively and be seen to be responsive and creative . |
| 6 | You could , for instance , to select a name at random , call somebody a Kevin and be seen to be especially rude . |
| 7 | I would retain my commission in the Dutch Navy , and be posted to the far east to be stationed in Java . ’ |
| 8 | I suggest that voices should not be entirely dissociated from the social context in which they function and that therefore all texts in modern spoken languages should be regarded as having ‘ the implication of utterance ’ , and be referred to typical participants in some generalised context of situation . |
| 9 | be required to undertake further work on the project and be referred to his project tutor or mentor for counselling |
| 10 | I 'll fall in and be cut to pieces ! ’ |
| 11 | A worshipable God must belong to the period of life on earth and be acknowledged to be non-existent before then . |
| 12 | If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years . |
| 13 | Effectively , taking control of a lethal weapon and driving down St Mary 's Road in Oxford , which is an ordinary residential street and kill someone and be sentenced to three years : I do n't think the public will think it 's enough . |
| 14 | She was the first of a line of ‘ nymphets ’ who would also include Carroll Baker in Baby Doll and be raised to the permanence of art in Nabokov 's Lolita . |
| 15 | In Genesis 2:24 he says , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and they will become one flesh . ’ |
| 16 | The mystery is a quotation from the creation narrative , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ( Eph. 5:31 quoting Gen. 2:24 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Have n't you read , ’ Jesus replied , ‘ that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female , and said , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ? |
| 18 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
| 19 | ‘ Go and be damned to ye ! |
| 20 | The Directory will only list and be sent to those who have indicated — either on this year 's or last year 's questionnaire — that they would like to be included . |
| 21 | The British recommended that Kim Roosevelt be in charge of any operation and be sent to Iran to explore the possibilities . |
| 22 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 23 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 24 | Many pilots will drift into other careers and be lost to the industry for good . |
| 25 | Without such a stoke of luck this lively ten year old could be soon need kidney disalysis … and be tied to the dialysis machine for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | The foregoing example illustrates the manner in which a human decision accepted as good , can be designated a unit of ‘ goodness ’ and be assigned to the store which is the Created God . |
| 27 | This is probably why , alongside the numerous examples of be seen to and be heard to in the affirmative , none have been found in the negative : ( 91 ) * He was n't seen to cross the street . |
| 28 | ‘ Well — we can stay here till the panic 's over , or we can go out and be trampled to death , ’ I said , pretending to misunderstand him . |
| 29 | Equally , you can not read about its history and be moved to sympathy by those revelations . |
| 30 | Initiation rites in magical sects and mystery religions often require the candidate to be shut up in a dark vault for a lengthy period , in order to die and be reborn to himself . |