Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
2 | Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service . |
3 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
4 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
5 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
6 | Mr Thornton said : ‘ Our aim is to have something for the golfing world to see in July 1995 when the Open Championship is staged at St Andrews . ’ |
7 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
8 | Labour has opposed our measures which have led to stiffer sentences , it would shackle the police with political controls and its answer to rising crime is to blame everyone except the criminal . |
9 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
10 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |