Example sentences of "[be] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what it would be interesting to would be to using the |
| 2 | The sooner Chris Woods , if fit , or David Seaman is brought in , the closer England will be to having an insurance policy should misfortune befall the great keeper , as in the infamous case of Gordon Banks in 1970 . |
| 3 | The prospect of environmental catastrophe has shown us how fragile life is , how inter-dependent we all are , how difficult it is going to be to find our way out — and how important ideas are going to be to finding it . |
| 4 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 5 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 6 | The evening event was thoroughly enjoyable with several awards being made , whilst Graham Crowe delivered one of his ‘ unaccustomed as I am to making short speeches ’ . |
| 7 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 8 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 9 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 10 | Because I 've been to catering things |
| 11 | Oh they were , have n't you ever been to Wakes ? |
| 12 | The terms were not satisfactory and by December of 1887 a further approach had been to made to Mr Quarry who suggested a price of £300 plus an annual ground rent of £2 . |
| 13 | This is the closest we have ever been to getting Ben back . |
| 14 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 15 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |
| 16 | Lily had been to dancing class — but so had Daisy and Ethel , just as all three at Dad 's especial wish had spent many hours learning the piano . |
| 17 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 18 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
| 19 | Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging . |
| 20 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 21 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 22 | Very important electronic applications of the simple high-pass form of C-R circuit are to coupling a signal while blocking a direct potential difference and to differentiation of a signal as discussed in section 4.4 . |
| 23 | Various influences are to seen at work here : the glowing example of the great pastellist Quentin de la Tour ; Ramsay 's copies of the old masters , in particular Domenichino ; and though more slight , the rococo superceding the baroque . |
| 24 | And what the rules are to using them . |
| 25 | LIFE must be hard in the Vatican — if the latest European Community farm export figures are to believed . |
| 26 | It is very much in demand and if the MacFarlane and Follett committees are to believed , that demand is not likely to slacken . |
| 27 | 'B' — if both primary and secondary runs are to done . |
| 28 | The procedures for European political cation need to be brought within a process of democratic accountability if they are to made more effective . |
| 29 | All these features are as relevant to running a high-quality home for mentally disordered people as they are to selling hamburgers , and many services are now devising rules for ‘ human ’ care which can be monitored in exactly the same way , covering aspects of the physical environment , care practices and procedures and ‘ customer satisfaction ’ with the service . |
| 30 | All paragraph references in this and the following sections are to Working Together unless otherwise stated . |