Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 2 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |
| 3 | Perhaps the best way to use dowsing in Earth Mysteries is to look for something definite — a lost markstone , for example , or an alignment . |
| 4 | At the McDermott-Scotland yard at Ardersier , near Inverness , 40 workers are to go after its last job , a jacket for Amerada Hess 's Scott oilfield , was shipped out on Tuesday . |
| 5 | Our data also suggest that the team model of professional/paraprofessional staff deployment has high potential for maximizing the contribution of available personnel to the helping process and , if paraprofessional social service workers are to function at their best level , not only do they require appropriate training but professional workers also need to be trained to work with them . |
| 6 | One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage . |
| 7 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 8 | Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’ |
| 9 | One principal target of this non-political group is to capitalise on their public profiles to raise consumer consciousness , while putting pressure on the powers-that-be to reveal the extent to which pesticides are used — preferably through comprehensive labelling of all foods . |
| 10 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 11 | This is the holistic way of dealing with the problems with which we are all going to have to cope , whether those problems are to do with our physical , emotional or mental well-being . |
| 12 | One person on his own could not constitute a procession , but if a person were to march on his own , having publicised the fact widely in advance , it would seem that he might be said to be organising a procession if , Pied Piper like , he were to draw a crowd of supporters and followers . |
| 13 | She must face that possibility , and take her chance , if their relationship was to progress beyond its present stage . |
| 14 | In 1989 the Home Affairs Select Committee announced that the work of the Police Complaints Authority is to come under its formal scrutiny and investigation . |
| 15 | The 29ft 6in columns of North Leith Church were to reappear at his great Classical mansion of Camperdown seven years later . |
| 16 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 17 | Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick . |
| 18 | ( His tragic folly was to insist after his successful revolution that only he knew which characters to write . ) |
| 19 | This accounts for some of the hopefulness with which France was to look to her African possessions for military manpower in the twentieth century . |
| 20 | In summary , cooperation is still necessary if trade , output , and employment are to develop to their full potential . |
| 21 | For many the initial reason for entering a progressive health organization is to fight for their own rights and welfare . |
| 22 | One of the ways of understanding long-gone societies is to look at their cultural artifacts . |
| 23 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |
| 24 | A more reliable method of sexing an individual is to look at its inner three fingers . |
| 25 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 26 | If employees are to work at their best they must : |
| 27 | But why was an in itself not implausible view held with a passionate , indeed a pathological , extremism which contrasted so notably ( as Bernard Shaw was to observe with his usual wit ) with the ideal of moderation and the juste milieu which had traditionally defined middle-class social ambitions and roles ? |
| 28 | An interesting additional observation was to find in my front-room data nonce nonsense formations , such as thingummycallit , and several idiosyncratic items , such as gobsocket and jiminycricket . |