Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're to bring it in in a shovel . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 3 | If the parties wish to link a tenant 's break to a rent review , one solution would be to link it not to the review date itself , but to the date on which the new rent is agreed or otherwise determined . |
| 4 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 5 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 6 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 7 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 8 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |
| 9 | Sections 6 and 7 of the UCTA override these provisions , and , in effect , provide for mandatory inclusion of such warranties in the contracts covered by these sections , since the easiest way to exclude liability for breach of such warranties is to exclude them altogether from the terms of the contract . |
| 10 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 11 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 12 | Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area . |
| 13 | The standard reaction when you receive such charges is to draw yourself up in a dignified manner and disclaim all knowledge of the dastardly deed . |
| 14 | The obvious answer is to draw it back to the side away from the corner , but this can create an unbalanced appearance . |
| 15 | Another is to ease her gently into the awareness that your visit will be shorter than usual , doing so some time after you have greeted her affectionately on your arrival and listened patiently to her news , views or troubles . |
| 16 | Its only idea for schools is to put them back in the power of local authorities . |
| 17 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 18 | They always say the thought might be worse and to , we know it costs about , it costs about ten pound to buy well , I think at the end of the day worth it , is to put them out on a paper plate . |
| 19 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |
| 20 | So when the jacket of Elleke Bohemer 's book An Immaculate Figure ( Bloomsbury £15.99 ) claims it is ‘ a compelling and beautifully told parable about Africa , whiteness and beauty ’ the reader 's first reaction is to put it back on the shelf and move quickly on . |
| 21 | The way to deal with the international support system at the moment is to reduce it right across the board — for all support systems to be reduced at a speed which farmers can bear and which bears on different types of farmers equally , both within the Community and as between the Community and our competitors in the United States . |
| 22 | A plan that sometimes works very well — after their kitchen equipment ( which should include a refrigerator ) has been checked — is to start them off with a ‘ gift ’ for their larder of a small box-full of a variety of inexpensive sauces , seasonings and flavourings , which can be used to add interest to very simple meals . |
| 23 | The way to get the maximum flavour out of dried apricots is to bake them slowly in the oven instead of stewing them . |
| 24 | Our aim is to get them out of the chair , cut the chains and let enjoy the freedom of the sea . |
| 25 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 26 | What we therefore need to do is to print it out in a way that will not only show the grid , but be big enough to follow easily whilst knitting . |
| 27 | One method , which by-passes the problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation , is to speak it direct to a microphone which records it straight onto the video tape via the mixer during a non-stop transfer . |
| 28 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 29 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 30 | In this case the simplest solution is to copy them back from the original installation disks — see Copying QBasic . |