Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The way to get the maximum flavour out of dried apricots is to bake them slowly in the oven instead of stewing them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 11 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 12 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 13 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 14 | Fortunately , my persistent ‘ need to know ’ was to get me there in the end . |
| 15 | Oak Marketing realised the solution to selling Brewking was to take it direct to the people and explain its process face to face . |
| 16 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |