Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be somewhere to visit once , just to see what it 's like , but it is totally unlike anywhere else , full of remarkable sights . |
| 2 | ‘ That does n't matter — it would be somewhere to live , on our own . ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand , I could put all my notes on it , and it would be somewhere to rest the elbows . |
| 4 | According to Lacan , the aim of psychoanalysis should be rigorously to deconstruct and expose the contradictions and radical fissues in which human subjectivity is born . |
| 5 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 6 | Indeed that to say that she was , would be fundamentally to undermine patristic Christology . |
| 7 | To adopt an approach akin to that used in the United States would be fundamentally to alter the rationale for judicial review . |
| 8 | Moreover , the constant updating of such a huge work by repeated republication in revised form would be merely to perpetuate the inherent inadequacies of the old system . |
| 9 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 10 | All in all , there will be much to interest the visitor in 1993 . |
| 11 | The incident of the ass : God 's purpose seems to be so to impress Balaam , that no matter how hard Balak works on him , the prophet will stick to the truth . |
| 12 | If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 14 | In London , the community , Bob Colenutt suggests , was never even considered , yet even when , as in the case of Pittsburgh , community involvement is statutory , the outcomes may be only to amplify those within the community ( or coming into the community ) with the greatest resources and power to exploit the local political system . |
| 15 | For example , as it is very time-consuming to produce a teaching unit , one approach would be only to accept an idea if it could produce a unit that ; ( i ) can be used by a wide range of teachers whose style of teaching varies a great deal ( ii ) can be of use to a wide age-range of pupils ( iii ) can be of use to a wide ability-range of pupils ( iv ) can encourage work on concepts as well as on content ( v ) may be of use in more than one subject discipline ( vi ) is suitable for demonstration mode with a large class ( vii ) is suitable for small groups or individuals to use ( viii ) can be used to produce further teaching materials ( ix ) can be used in teacher-training . |
| 16 | When air divers are deployed from a dynamically positioned vessel ( DP ) , either from a basket or wet bell , a tender will be inside to tend the umbilicals . |
| 17 | If Maggie died she would be entirely to blame . |
| 18 | There may not be long to wait . |
| 19 | The legal costs will be paid from your Estate so there will be less to divide between relatives and other beneficiaries . |
| 20 | Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list . |
| 21 | Whether or not he felt an ounce of embarrassment ( probably not ) , it had to be enough to make him aware of waiters . |
| 22 | The starting point for delivering your presentation should be physically to recognise them — that is , to look at them . |
| 23 | ‘ If I am struggling around the 15 miles mark then my determination will be just to finish , but it is my ambition to break 2hr 25min . ’ |
| 24 | Any member or creditor aggrieved by the dissolution can apply within the following 20 years for restoration of the company name on the grounds that the company was in fact continuing to operate , or that it would otherwise be just to do so ( s 653 , Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 25 | It might not be just to press philosophical objections , since it is obvious that a rhetorical question does not commit him to ignore even the most imminent of coming events . |
| 26 | If your inadequacy is so serious that , to use one phrase from the case law , there is an ‘ irredeemable incapability ’ , so that being given a warning and an opportunity to mend your ways would simply be a waste of time and might put the business at risk , it may be just to dismiss you as soon as the full extent of your failings comes to light . |
| 27 | Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable . |
| 28 | But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge . |
| 29 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 30 | He concealed his boredom through the first act , but by intermission he was itching to be away to claim his prize . |