Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 2 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 3 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
| 4 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 5 | All it achieves is to give them an air of generosity , and so put Abraham at an even greater disadvantage in the rounds to come . |
| 6 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 7 | I think the best thing for me to do now is to give you a day by day account of what has happened since we have been here . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for arranging it is to give you the chance to be responsible for your own learning while you are on the placement . |
| 9 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
| 10 | All you have to do is to mail us a postcard with your name and address written on it together with your answer to the following simple question : |
| 11 | Mobile minister the Rev Bill Harper , who is to conduct a special service for Maude , is to take her a letter from the Queen Mother and a signed photograph from Dr George Carey . |
| 12 | That 's to make me a cup of tea . |
| 13 | That 's to make me a cup of tea when I get home and can try it . |
| 14 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 15 | The way to make sense of the 17 keV neutrino is to make it a mixture of an electron neutrino and a third-generation ‘ tau neutrino ’ — with the mass provided by the tau neutrino . |
| 16 | One solution to this , of course , is to make it a coat of some non-allergic material . |
| 17 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 18 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 19 | Konrad Adenauer had already suggested that West Germany should be allowed the means to defend itself , and that the surest way of winning the population over to a massive commitment to democracy was to give it a stake in the responsibility of defending Western Europe . |
| 20 | The idea was to teach us the beauty of the English language . |
| 21 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 22 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 23 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 24 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |