Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’ |
| 2 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 3 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 4 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 5 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 6 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 8 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 9 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 10 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 11 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |
| 12 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |