Example sentences of "[modal v] be [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 2 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 3 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 4 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 5 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |