Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 2 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 3 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 4 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 5 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 6 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 7 | If you have genuine difficulty in keeping to the diet in this book or any other diet , your best bet is to go back to the calorie-counting method , supervised by a diet club , dietitian , or doctor . |
| 8 | Elaborating on the Alliance 's offer of co-operation , Baker said in an address to ministers on June 6 that " our goal is to reach out to the Soviet Union and to the emerging democracies of central and eastern Europe " . |
| 9 | British Coal insists that is main aim is to hold on to the three-year contracts with the two electricity generators , which will be renegotiated in March next year . |
| 10 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |
| 11 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 12 | The simplest way or wiring is to link in to an existing socket , but the alternative is to connect direct into the ring circuit cable using a three-dimensional junction box . |
| 13 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 14 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 15 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 16 | The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past . |