Example sentences of "[adv] be [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who can not the price also be to guarantee the future pension rights of the workers who happen to work in the public company ? |
| 2 | To find the best way in which to correct such an observation and to nullify its effect always poses a problem for the judge because , if he intervenes immediately , the effect will probably be to emphasise the obvious relevance and cogency of the comment which ought not to have been made . |
| 3 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |
| 4 | In that budget speech Sir Geoffrey Howe stated : ‘ Our long-term aim should surely be to reduce the basic rate of income tax to no more than 25 per cent . ’ |
| 5 | For example , if music was being played in the background at the time the shots were being taken , the breaks at each shot change will be very noticeable and the remedy may then be to replace the original sound with a continuous background . |