Example sentences of "[det] be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specific reasons for this are to do with the development of the English Labour movement in relation to the development of British capitalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 3 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 4 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 5 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 6 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 7 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 8 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 9 | One way to avoid this is to think for a moment before beginning , searching for some idea , however brief , on which our imagination can work . |
| 10 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 11 | This is to imply to a bystander that the biker is an athlete in training , with no time to stop and take a drink in a punishing schedule . |
| 12 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 13 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 14 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 15 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | This was to consist of a system of linkages for bicycle traffic arranged in a functional hierarchy , with each of three levels in the network being specifically designed to meet particular needs of cycle traffic , as Figure 9.9 shows . |
| 17 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 18 | All this was to change with the advent of Sir Ralph Furse , who from 1919 to 1948 was in sole charge of recruitment for the Colonial Service . |
| 19 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 20 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 21 | It is usually the case that the primaries are geographically distinct and , since not all are to appear in the sample , there is a clear administrative advantage over a sampling scheme involving the whole population of secondaries . |
| 22 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 23 | Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers . |
| 24 | Christians were baptized into ‘ Christ ’ , not into ‘ Jesus ’ , that is to say into a relationship to Jesus as God , not into the human Jesus . |
| 25 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 26 | Locally , that is to say on a scale small compared with the radius of curvature r of the surface . |
| 27 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 28 | It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting . |
| 29 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 30 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |