Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 2 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 3 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 4 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 5 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 6 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 7 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 8 | The rugged mountain region between Little Loch Broom and Loch Maree is regarded with affection and apprehension by conservationists and mountaineers alike , their concern being to keep it as an unspoilt wilderness against the growing threat of infiltration by unsympathetic tourists and insensitive planners . |
| 9 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 10 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 11 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 12 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 13 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 14 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 15 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 16 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 17 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 18 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 19 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 20 | The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one . |
| 21 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 22 | The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer . |
| 23 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 24 | The ideal is to coat them with a good flexible roofing compound while still sound , which can extend the life of a roof by up to 20 years . |
| 25 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 26 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 27 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 28 | The simplest way to destroy an ailing fish is to hold it in a damp cloth and dash it smartly against a hard surface such as a concrete path . |
| 29 | After being on the receiving end of the challenge which brought Marsh 's late dismissal , he allowed Piatnitski to complete a night which showed the strides the home side must make if it is to re-establish itself as a European force . |
| 30 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |