Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 2 | A lot of it is to do with attitude . |
| 3 | The only ‘ sanction ’ against them is to resort to world public opinion' ( Cassese , 1979 , p. 165 ) . |
| 4 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 5 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc president , Scott McNealy , has been talking to and having lunch with Ray Noorda lately , chewing over what 's to become of Unix System Labs under Novell Inc . |
| 7 | First , all societies develop their own ideas as to what is to count as rationality . |
| 8 | To speak to oneself is to speak without constraint , to draft a minute which will be laid before a minister who will never read it . |