Example sentences of "be [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 2 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 3 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 4 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
| 5 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 6 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 7 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 8 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 9 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 10 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 11 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 12 | Changes are to include a nine-member national executive , a regional council and clearly defined leadership structure , which will make it more akin to mainstream political parties . |
| 13 | Some believed indeed that the original intention of Soviet Mediterranean deployments had been to induce a negotiated withdrawal of the United States ' Sixth Fleet . |
| 14 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 15 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 16 | If we are to see a solution ot the problems in Yugoslavia , it must be one that addresses minority rights . |
| 17 | Survey team : Representatives of local community groups and the Rev Michael Collins , Administrator of Long Tower , with members of the Foyle Community Unit Needs Assessment Team , who are to conduct a Health and Social Care survey in the Brandywell area . |
| 18 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 19 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 20 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 21 | Residents of Killuney Park , a luxury cul-de-sac on whose doorstep the school would be built are to lodge a protest with the DoE 's Planning Service . |
| 22 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 23 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 24 | The mission had been to penetrate a terrorist base in Libya and eliminate all personnel , which included Salim Al-Makesh , an advisor to the Black June , a movement founded by Abu Nidal in I976 in protest at the involvement of Syria in the Lebanese civil war , and Jean-Jacques Bernard , a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 25 | I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school . |
| 26 | However , this barrier was removed by s. 3 of the 1978 Act , the effect of which has been to enable a party to bring an action against any one partner for the recovery of the partnership debt irrespective of the liability of other partners . |
| 27 | But they have the grave disadvantage that they must spend almost all their waking hours eating it if they are to obtain an adequate diet . |
| 28 | Now that we have learnt to take account of the unpaid domestic labour of younger women as positive inputs into the economy ( Piachaud , 1985 ; Joshi , 1987a ) , it is time to extend this approach to the variety of unpaid activities of older people if we are to obtain an accurate picture of their role in the economy and of the extent to which they are a net ‘ burden ’ upon it . |
| 29 | So , the insects which feed on nectar need a very well-developed time sense if they are to secure a meal easily . |
| 30 | I suggest , General , that if we are to secure a good working relationship , such remarks could be kept to a minimum ? ’ |