Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 3 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 4 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 5 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 6 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 7 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 8 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 9 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 10 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 11 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 12 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 13 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 14 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 15 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 16 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 17 | Fortunately was interested and immediately delved into his record collection and started to play some old rock 'n' roll LP 's to get us in the mood . |
| 18 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |