Example sentences of "[be] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 2 | The key to Israel 's success , and to a lesser extent Syria 's , had been its ability to prey on the strategic anxieties of its superpower patron . |
| 3 | It will now be their responsibility to explain to the public why some cases are priorities and others not . |
| 4 | Surely it must be his duty to call in the next day or so on Paul Berowne 's wife and his family . |
| 5 | ‘ It will be your job to go to the kitchen and get the jug and fill it with water and put it on the table here with a clean empty glass just before the lesson starts . ’ |
| 6 | The Labour and Socialist International was not prepared to recommend the formation of United Fronts in individual countries but issued the following reply to the Comintern : We feel it to be our duty to call upon the Parties affiliated to the LSI to hold their hands if possible and not to deal with Communist offers of this kind in the individual countries until the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International has defined its attitude towards the new platform of the Comintern . |
| 7 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 8 | It has been his job to knock on the head any mutterings about this summer 's circus , notably those emanating from the Partito Sardo D'Azione , the Sardinian nationalist party , which proclaims sarcastically that it thought Sardinia 's days as a penal colony were long past . |
| 9 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 10 | But if , if , I can make myself whole , or be made whole with the help of others , then it is my duty to submit to the pain , of healing , the lashes of contempt . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm right at the peak of my career now , and it 's my ambition to go for the ‘ grand slam ’ , ’ said Gunnell , after winning the 400m , her first race in Britain for five months . |
| 12 | There is a third limit to early structuralism and that is its failure to deal with the historicity of structures . |
| 13 | The business plan 's third big hole is its failure to deal with the lawsuits that names are bringing for alleged negligence by agents . |
| 14 | She feels the worst part of being unemployed is her inability to plan for the future . |
| 15 | But perhaps her most original gift is her ability to empathise with the everyday disappointments and sadnesses of the most ordinary lives . |
| 16 | However , John Magill , national director of accounting and audit at Touche Ross , said : ‘ We have already given the Department of Trade and Industry access to all our papers because , in our view , it is their job to investigate on the investors ' behalf , not the liquidators ' … |
| 17 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 18 | and that 's your sauce to serve on the side . |
| 19 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
| 20 | And er we did say that we would consult further about it , and erm you are one constituency , er which certainly you know , er as is your responsibility to think about the worship line of the church . |
| 21 | Let no book perish , unless it be such an one as it is your duty to throw on the fire . |
| 22 | It is our custom to bathe in the streams near my home very often and wash always before eating . |
| 23 | It is our intention to add to the literature on the dynamics of transition within voluntary organisations by studying the NMGC in detail over time . |
| 24 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 25 | After three weeks it was my turn to go to the delivery ward at Fulmer . |
| 26 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 27 | ‘ It was my task to follow at the rear ! ’ |
| 28 | It was my lot to live on the desert fringes where the rubbish lay . |
| 29 | Fortunately , Ewen and myself had remembered to bring along the Trophy as well as the cheque for £500 which it was my pleasure to present to The Crofter of the year — Donald Murdo Macleod , 1 The Gress , Back , Lewis . |
| 30 | Underlying much working-class opposition was a hostility often born of an older moralism : it was their willingness to interfere with the workings of God , Providence or Nature that made the suggestions of the birth controllers sometimes appear even more shocking than those of Malthus . |