Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more such errors appear in the learning process , the more likely they are to appear later in the use of the language . |
| 2 | at how we 're to go forward in the future an and improve the service |
| 3 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 4 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 5 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 6 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 7 | How heavy it is to sit there in the waiting room , on the chair , by the table , with one 's penitent perfecto , watching the cankered apples heal . |
| 8 | The major difficulty is to find somewhere in the Middle Last in which seclusion and moderate comfort can be combined . |
| 9 | It is essential not to confound him with the greater Frederick II ( Hohenstaufen ) , holy Roman emperor from 1215 to 1250 , and before that ( 1198–1212 ) king of Sicily as Frederick I. For this great figure , author of The Book of the Falcon and a hero for Dante as well as Pound , is to figure portentously in the Thrones cantos to come as we shall see . |
| 10 | If the United States is to compete effectively in the world in a way designed to enhance the real incomes of Americans , we must bring collective entrepreneurship to the forefront of the economy . |
| 11 | The only other course of action for a tree-nester is to hop about in the tree , squawking and screeching noisily in an attempt to break the attacker 's concentration . |
| 12 | One of the biggest nightmares for company chiefs is to wake up in the morning to be greeted by Which ? headlines branding their latest product as ‘ rip-off ’ or ‘ death-trap ’ . |
| 13 | Lily Firth , Lily Greene the actress , née Lily Greenwood of Leeds , was to holiday not in the South of France or Austria or Switzerland , but in deepest , darkest , furthest Rumania … |
| 14 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 15 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 16 | The situation was to deteriorate further in the space of an hour when first Bernhard Langer and then Seve Ballesteros lost out to Chip Beck and Paul Azinger respectively . |
| 17 | When I went , seven years ago , it was to fight harder in the battle . |
| 18 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 19 | Ceauşescu 's sensitivities in matters of art were hardly developed : as he was to show later in the planning of the enormous House of the People ( see chapter VIII below ) , he knew what he liked but had difficulty envisaging it , and tended to change his mind . |