Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who am I to argue with the Bard ? |
| 2 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 3 | What are we to conclude about the implications for his later personality of the way in which a child is treated during his early years ? |
| 4 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 5 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 6 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 7 | How are we to judge from an animal 's overt behaviour whether we are observing a well-oiled machine or a creature with some degree of intelligence and creativity ? |
| 8 | It is this " odd prejudice against his subject " which causes Tindall to move beyond the bounds of " decency " : " What are we to say of a research student who [ sets ] in an ambiguous light the author of one of the greatest books in our language , and one of the greatest religious forces in the life of England ? " |
| 9 | Are we to infer from the texts that the pupils do not understand the differences between inborn and conditioned reflexes ? |
| 10 | How else are we to break through the effects of centuries of compliance and make the Copts erect and independent once again ? ’ |
| 11 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 12 | Now , what are we to make of an incident such as this ? |
| 13 | But what are we to make of the evidence which suggests that working class wives rarely knew what their husbands earned , or enjoyed sex , or of the probably greater incidence of violence between spouses ? |
| 14 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 15 | What are we to make of the similarities between these two speakers , one white , the other black ? |
| 16 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 17 | The question arises : What are we to make of the equality |
| 18 | Are we to look within the Church for those kind of murderous emotions ? ’ |
| 19 | If so , what are they to make of the case last week of Maria Jones , a 22-year-old woman who was 31 weeks pregnant ? |
| 20 | Were you to take after the Italians , you would use no more than oil and vinegar , added at the time you served the salad , even leaving each consumer to make up his or her own dressing . |
| 21 | So I think there are difficulties and I might er just finally add that were we to go along the lines he mentioned , we would of course need primary er legislation because we could n't introduce in orders under the relevant legislation this , so it would have to be a matter for another day , were we to er consider that seriously , but it is not the intention of the government . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 23 | How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ? |
| 24 | Day Two : The day is yours to take in the sights of Cologne . |
| 25 | The remainder of the evening is yours to browse among the antiques and chat with the experts . |
| 26 | What is it to act on the basis of moral , as opposed to non-moral , considerations ? |
| 27 | Is it to do with the newspapers ? |
| 28 | Is it to do with the package industry revolution ? |
| 29 | " Is it to do with the bomb that was thrown at the governor general ? " |
| 30 | She said : ‘ Is it to do with the murder ? ’ |