Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 2 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 3 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 4 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 5 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 6 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
| 7 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 9 | Labour has opposed our measures which have led to stiffer sentences , it would shackle the police with political controls and its answer to rising crime is to blame everyone except the criminal . |
| 10 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 11 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |
| 12 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 13 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 14 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 15 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 16 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 17 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 18 | The ‘ filmic ’ way to shoot a scene is to record it as a series of separate shots taken at different distances and angles . |
| 19 | A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body . |
| 20 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 21 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 22 | The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant . |
| 23 | The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . |
| 24 | NEXT loop is to restructure it as a REPEAT … |
| 25 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 26 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 27 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 28 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 29 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 30 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |