Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it must be recognized that to teach about Christianity though it entails teaching about Christian doctrine , with the gospels and at least part of the Old Testament as the source and background of that doctrine , in no sense involves proselytizing . |
| 2 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 3 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 4 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I 'm lucky not to be paralysed and to have escaped with just a busted nose . ’ |
| 6 | It is imperative to gain the Head 's assurance that confidentiality shall not be broken and to insist that the child shall not be discriminated against . |
| 7 | Regulations now in force allow a private limited company to be formed or to operate with only one member ( p 110 ) . |
| 8 | The major amendments are : to s 1 , CA 1985 to allow a private limited company to be formed or to operate with only one member ; to s 24 , CA 1985 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies ( so , if a company becomes a single member company as a result , say , of the transfer of the shares of one of two members to the other , the sole member will not lose the benefit of limited liability as could formerly be the case ) ; to s 122(1) ( e ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies . |
| 9 | As has frequently been said , the right to be heard or to make representations is worth little unless the person making the representations knows , at least in general terms , the case he has to meet : see , for example , Lord Denning in Kanda v. Government of Malaya [ 1962 ] A.C. 322 , 337 . |
| 10 | The court may give directions or vary or revoke an existing direction at any stage in the proceedings provided that the parties are given notice and an opportunity to attend and be heard or to make written representations . |
| 11 | In this case Lord Meston submits that it was implicit in the order of Judge Lally of 2 July 1991 that the father had a joint interest in and a ‘ right of custody ’ of the child , inasmuch as he had a right to be consulted and to have his views considered in relation to the determination of the child 's place of residence . |
| 12 | A patient commencing insulin needs to be taught and to learn about the equipment , its care and storage , drawing up insulin , injection technique , sites to use and timing of injections . |
| 13 | Then , while he was in an uncertain mood about the idea of leaving the warren , Captain Holly had appeared in capital time to be attacked and to provide a perfect reason for their departure . |
| 14 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 15 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 16 | Influencing both civil and criminal procedure before and at trial , the English adversarial approach permits the parties to dictate the issues to be resolved and to settle the pace of the action . |
| 17 | It will pay them to settle in advance how such matters are to be resolved and to make appropriate provision in the partnership agreement . |
| 18 | Extra filtration would be added and to save time it was decided that a 4′ water tank would be used for this purpose . |
| 19 | The specification produced earlier should be included and to assist the supplier in providing information it is reasonable to supply information on the following : |
| 20 | In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect . |
| 21 | And I know a lot of things too with the girls who came to us , we tried to erm give them er a sense of their worth as a women and not to constantly be oppressed and to accept erm what their boyfriends did or said , and so on . |
| 22 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 23 | Rather than having to go out to find people and ask them to be interviewed or to complete questionnaires , it may seem very attractive to have them safely on a panel where they can be used when needed . |
| 24 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 25 | A decision will also have to be made whether to use a number of smaller local distributors or a small number of large national distributors . |
| 26 | Usually a choice has to be made whether to carry out 100% inspection or some lesser amount on a sampling basis . |
| 27 | Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality . |
| 28 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 29 | The decorative insistence , to which Heron objected , can be interpreted as a visual expression of Minton 's loneliness , of his desire to charm and seduce , to be accepted and to belong . |
| 30 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |