Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My job is to go on stage and make people forget about their problems — I do n't want to tell them about mine . ’ |
| 2 | Neither was I told to examine in minute detail , every blade of grass that my kit was to come in contact with . |
| 3 | But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation … . |
| 4 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 5 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 6 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 7 | A woman of character and finesse and blessed with a total devotion to her new husband , she played a large part in setting the artistic tone at Tribschen , which Nietzsche was to remember with admiration all his life . |
| 8 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 9 | principal female character in Shakespeare 's Hamlet ; her distraction comparable with Mrs Veneering 's on hearing that her husband is to stand for Parliament . |
| 10 | In the book of Leviticus we learn of sacrifices which priests were to offer on behalf of the nation of Israel and individual Jews as well . |
| 11 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 12 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 13 | As Spence ( 1975 ) says , " the firm , in large part , consists of non-market institutions whose function is to deal with resource allocation in the presence of informational constraints that markets handle poorly or do not handle at all " ( p. 164 ) . |
| 14 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for the survival of the category is the survival of educational institutions defined by it : special schools and units whose purpose is to cater for MLD/ESN pupils . |
| 16 | The Chaplain had been so injured in combat that his best continuing contribution to his chapter was to act as escort and religious awakener to young new recruits . |
| 17 | His remedy was to sue for breach of contract . |
| 18 | Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing . |
| 19 | Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing . |
| 20 | But during the three eight-week terms his routine was to sleep in college , at least for the days in the middle of the week . |
| 21 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 22 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 23 | ‘ Our aim is to stay on course to meet our objectives , continue to learn and see if we can steal another victory . ’ |
| 24 | The same wasted effort and security risk would apply if the UK importer in our example were to pay in sterling . |
| 25 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |