Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 2 | And if you are to provide them with decent motives for a murder , and decently different ones as well , you will need room to do it in . |
| 3 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 4 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 5 | The best way to do this is to compare it with real paddlers . |
| 6 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 7 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 8 | All you need to do is to wipe them with absorbent paper . |
| 9 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 10 | The trick with infantry is to use them in large units , at least four ranks deep , preferably more , and to always give them a banner . |
| 11 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 12 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 13 | She has since died , and the Society , which emphasises that there is no question of the painting being sold , has decided that the most correct course of action is to put it on permanent loan with the National Gallery , where it will go on display , newly restored , in an exhibition of comparative material this October . |
| 14 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 15 | Most pupils ' experience of drama must be confined to ‘ drama lessons ’ and the easiest way to conduct such a short lesson is to devote it to improvised drama and movement , with its focus on individual objectives . |
| 16 | Another way to tell a joke without directing it against your subject is to refer it to other people . |
| 17 | The modern way is to have them at right angles . ) |
| 18 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 19 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 20 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 21 | A helpful device is to print them on separate index cards which you carry around with you for a while . |
| 22 | Another way of disposing of rubbish is to burn it in large incinerators . |
| 23 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 24 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 25 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 26 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 27 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 28 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 29 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 30 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |