Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 2 | Right you 're to match it with a bear . |
| 3 | ‘ You are to confine yourself to a mosque until after the Moulid . |
| 4 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 5 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 6 | Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary . |
| 7 | In most literary essays your central concern will be to say something about a text ; and most of what you need will be there , in the text itself . |
| 8 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |
| 9 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 11 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 12 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 13 | To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority . |
| 14 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 15 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 16 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 17 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 18 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 19 | Every child knows that the way to break the most intractable toffee is to hit it with a poker . |
| 20 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
| 21 | The salesperson 's task is to provide it in a manner which does not antagonise the buyer and , yet , is convincing . |
| 22 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 23 | To define the literary text as a structure is to view it as a set of Saussurean signs ( or as a single sign , as Mukařovský ( 1970 : 69ff. ) suggested ) , in which both signifiers and signifieds are governed by a single complex system of relationships . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend knows that our policy on interest rates is to set them in a way that is compatible with our commitment to the pound 's band within the exchange rate mechanism and to bear down on inflation . |
| 25 | COOK 'S NOTE : The easiest way to crumble any blue cheese is to stroke it with a fork until crumbled . |
| 26 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 27 | Even safer — but more costly — is to pump it to a depth of 3000 metres . |
| 28 | For example , to commit an account of an incident to paper is to endow it with a permanence and visibility to senior staff which may result in the creation of further — seemingly unnecessary — work . |
| 29 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 30 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |