Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 2 | Her original plan for the previous Wednesday had been to put in an hour or two of picket duty very early in the morning , and then go on to her appointment at Pringle 's . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 4 | By getting a Sponsor , one of whose functions may be to act as a mirror and reflect back the attitudes and behaviour of the sufferer , helping him or her to gain insight into self and establish goals for further improvement in recovery through guidance on the 12 Steps . |
| 5 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 6 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 7 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 8 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 9 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 10 | The Bank 's usual policy in this regard is to sell into a rising or stable market . |
| 11 | To go back to 1700 is to look at a life that is very little different , for most men and women , from that of 1500 or even 1200 . |
| 12 | Since there are advantages both in storing records singly and in using large buckets , one solution is to randomize to a track but to store records singly in CKD format . |
| 13 | If you choose this type of holiday a good starting point is to decide on a city that fascinates you and which you have always wanted to visit and book a package trip ( that is one in which travel , hotel , and meals are included , with some guided tours ) . |
| 14 | This is to imply to a bystander that the biker is an athlete in training , with no time to stop and take a drink in a punishing schedule . |
| 15 | As temperature decreases with height in the troposphere ( reaching -40 to -80 °C at the tropopause ) , the effect of a warm stratosphere is to act as a ceiling or lid to vertical motion in the troposphere — that is , convective processes which produce clouds and precipitation are contained within the troposphere . |
| 16 | the issue to be determined ( 8.4 ) ( 1.1 ) ; the expert 's qualifications ( 8.5 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that he is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator ( 8.6 ) ( 1.3 ) ; how the expert is to be appointed ( 8.7 ) ( 1.1 ) ; that the decision will be final and binding ( 8.8 ) ( 1.3 ) ; the due date for payment of the amount determined ( 8.9 ) ( 1.3 ) ; that the expert has the power to award interest ( 8.10 ) ( 1.3 ) ; provision for interest to run for late payment of the amount determined ( 8.11 ) ( 1.4 ) ( sometimes found elsewhere in the agreement ) ; and how the expert is to be paid ( 8.12 ) ( 1.3 ) . |
| 17 | The most commonly encountered wording is that the referee is to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 18 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 19 | Every living thing was to come from a seed or an egg . |
| 20 | I was once advised that the best way to avoid jumping the gun during intercourse was to concentrate on an image that offered the minimum in erotic possibilities . |
| 21 | Since she represented the Emperor and the government , her task was to serve as a sheet-anchor and a symbol around which could rally the national will to resist the enemy . |
| 22 | It was to do with a smell and some music and a steel thing swinging out and back , out and back , like the pendulum in the story by Edgar Alan poe . |
| 23 | For once I agree with Du Camp , who used to say that Gustave 's preferred form of travel was to lie on a divan and have the scenery carried past him . |
| 24 | In Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 , the terms of a lease stated that the rent reviewer was to act as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 25 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |