Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ?
2 Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World .
3 One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting .
4 So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot .
5 As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits .
6 She was to keep it for the next three and a half years .
7 Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning .
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