Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 2 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 3 | Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area . |
| 4 | One method , which by-passes the problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation , is to speak it direct to a microphone which records it straight onto the video tape via the mixer during a non-stop transfer . |
| 5 | Hastings had showed an interest in the Yarmouth fisheries , with the four main Kentish ports , long before the Conquest ; what the latter did eventually was to weld them together in a loose federation for supplying ship rather than knight service in return for limited privileges . |
| 6 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |