Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For is this not also the party which is led by a woman who has devoted much effort to preaching the virtues of abolishing precisely what Labour is trying at least to re-define : socialism itself . |
| 2 | This girl was looking for somewhere to hide . |
| 3 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 4 | Like the Flying Dutchman , condemned for ever to roam the world 's oceans , the right hon. Gentleman is condemned for ever to attend debates on guillotine motions in an attempt to expiate his past sins in that area . |
| 5 | Public sector pricing raises more complex issues but it , too , is based on the idea that the price is fixed at least to cover the marginal social cost of producing the service . |
| 6 | ‘ It does sound as though there is , ’ answered Brown Owl , ‘ and it keeps circling , almost as if the pilot is looking for somewhere to land . ’ |
| 7 | Each application is looked at carefully to make sure that those in most need will receive the service . |
| 8 | One detachment was sent on westwards to attack Argyll 's home , Inverary Castle , on Loch Fyne , 65 miles [ 104 km ] west of Perth , but the attempt failed . |
| 9 | The formal or aesthetic qualities of literature are consequently subordinated to ideological ends and the writer is called upon exclusively to produce literature which mobilises the masses in the spirit of socialism . |