Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [conj] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 2 | Part of his technique for staying in power has been to ensure that all the people closest to him get their hands bloody by sharing in the hangman 's work ; he calls it ‘ democratic execution ’ |
| 3 | Similarly , the excursion into the scheming phase may just be to check that such a mechanism or structure can be accommodated in the overall product or project . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for acquiring shares rather than assets is to ensure that all the target 's assets will be acquired with the business . |
| 5 | The purpose of scanning is to check that all the information in the module header has been correctly formatted , and is in the correct place . |