Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 2 | She has since died , and the Society , which emphasises that there is no question of the painting being sold , has decided that the most correct course of action is to put it on permanent loan with the National Gallery , where it will go on display , newly restored , in an exhibition of comparative material this October . |
| 3 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 4 | A helpful device is to print them on separate index cards which you carry around with you for a while . |
| 5 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 6 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 7 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 8 | Another way of disposing of rubbish is to burn it in large incinerators . |
| 9 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 10 | Another way to tell a joke without directing it against your subject is to refer it to other people . |
| 11 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |
| 12 | Most pupils ' experience of drama must be confined to ‘ drama lessons ’ and the easiest way to conduct such a short lesson is to devote it to improvised drama and movement , with its focus on individual objectives . |
| 13 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 14 | The thing was to keep her as Brown Owl of the 2nd Longreen Pack . |
| 15 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 16 | ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’ |
| 17 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 18 | The modern way is to have them at right angles . ) |
| 19 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 20 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 21 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 22 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 23 | There was no time to hand pick and develop enough trainees , and the only solution was to capture them from other firms . |