Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention in suggesting them is to stimulate further thought about other possible frames . |
| 2 | The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis . |
| 3 | To know oneself was to know that order . |
| 4 | ‘ Well — Mrs Crumwallis says he 's to have another dose of-of medicine before he goes to sleep . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Please get stationery ready , Matron has been told we are to take another batch of severely wounded soldiers . |
| 6 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 7 | The way to do it is to treat that murder in as formal a manner as you can . |
| 8 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 9 | But to go there was to enter another world . |
| 10 | It seems we 're to face another flight ? ’ |
| 11 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 12 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 13 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 14 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 15 | Mrs Abigail drove the blue WRVS van , Miss Poraway sat beside her with a list of the names and addresses they were to visit that morning , the diabetics marked with a ‘ D ’ , as were the corresponding dinners in the metal hot-boxes . |
| 16 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 17 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 18 | Mrs Gales said they are to have temporary accommodation in the Water Park Community Centre . |
| 19 | A leading brewery in the Fox F M area has confirmed it 's to offer financial help to pub managers faced with high Poll Tax bills . |
| 20 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |