Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 2 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 3 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 4 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |
| 5 | The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and haute cuisine restaurant . |
| 6 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 7 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 8 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 10 | Where this is impossible , such as against a house well , where there is often a concrete apron adjacent to the wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it into the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 11 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 12 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 13 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 14 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 15 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 16 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 17 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 18 | The natural inclination of a new ‘ Couper is to turn it with the fingers , but one quickly learns to run a palm across one side , either up or down , in order to change trim by rolling the black knob . |
| 19 | The Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education is to advise me on the implications of the report for primary initial teacher training in future . |
| 20 | erm The only way to get through to a diverted phone is to call it through the number it 's diverted to . |
| 21 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 22 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 23 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 24 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 25 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 26 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 27 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 28 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 29 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 30 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |