Example sentences of "be [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 2 | How are we to explain these cases of pattern generation within homogeneous tissues ? |
| 3 | Something has obviously got to be done to make sure that these simple shelters , which are there to offer overnight shelter for anyone in need of it , are not used for holiday centres and the like . |
| 4 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 5 | I would be grateful were you to bring this Mass to the attention of the people through your parish bulletins . |
| 6 | There 's nothing to beat that sense of a victory achieved by your own efforts . |
| 7 | There is nothing to suggest outright conflict between arians and catholics in the kingdom of Toulouse , except in the years of expansion under Euric . |
| 8 | Mr Peter Shrigley , general manager of Oldham health authority , said : ‘ There is nothing to suggest any connection between hospital catering and this outbreak . |
| 9 | There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al. |
| 10 | At the moment there is nothing to prevent another flood of 1966 proportions or worse , as was demonstrated by the exceptionally high tide of 8 December last . |
| 11 | A certain amount of your pension or allowance is yours to buy personal items like clothes , shoes and toiletries . |
| 12 | ‘ And there 's something to connect these cases with Aurae Phiala ? ’ |
| 13 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 14 | There was nothing to stop Labour voters from supporting such rebels against the party truce in the privacy of the ballot box , although party members who publicly supported Common Wealth candidates suffered expulsion . |
| 15 | It was found that the matter was viewed as ‘ civil ’ in Norwegian law , and it was held that ( contrary to the view of Woolf L.J. ) there was nothing to take fiscal matters outside the civil category in English law , which embraced everything which was not a criminal matter . |
| 16 | Any fool could see that with the ledgers and papers destroyed there was nothing to substantiate any misdealings with the accounts . |
| 17 | There was nobody to take immediate advantage of the breakthrough because it had until then been universally believed that the learning of language and the understanding of ideas depended on the ability to hear words . |
| 18 | So eager was she to experience another session of past-life regression that she was fifteen minutes early for her appointment ! |
| 19 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |