Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge for them is to get all the way round and being able to say ‘ I completed the Circuit of Ireland ’ will be reward enough . |
| 2 | The only solution for them is to seek information from the manufacturer or retailer . |
| 3 | Most landowners do realise that people have a right to be there and the best PR for them is to ensure the rights of way are clear and enjoyable — landowners need public support . |
| 4 | One way of distinguishing between them is to define needs as basic physical and psychological drives arising from being human ( eg need for food , clothing , self-esteem etc ) , and to define wants as specific desires directed towards fulfilling the basic needs . |
| 5 | The difference between them is to do with the starting point which they adopt and the nature and scope of the changes that are envisaged . |
| 6 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 7 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 9 | But the fall in oil prices and the stupendous costs of the synthetic fuels projects involved , such as the Alsands synthetic oil extraction project and the Cold Lake heavy oil extraction project , which between them were to cost C$30 billion caused the cancellation of the projects . |
| 10 | The war between them was to drag on until 1364 , a period of some twenty years . |
| 11 | I think the worst thing for me is to see homeless people . |
| 12 | The most important thing for me is to stay strong in all the races . |
| 13 | During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store . |
| 14 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 15 | Another important aspect for me was to recognize that the health sector needed to be allied with the most significant political forces working for the kind of changes that would help ensure healthy public policy . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And even as America 's administrations change , America 's fundamental interests do not and the greatest gesture of goodwill any nation can make towards me is to continue their full cooperation during this period with our one President , George Bush . ’ |
| 18 | Staff at Oxford Regional health Authority will now have to wait and see how many of them are to keep their jobs . |
| 19 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 20 | How do they decide which of them is to do the job that month ? |
| 21 | If each prisoner can trust the other not to confess , the best deal for the two of them is to maintain silence . |
| 22 | It is up to each individual union to deal with this problem , but the obvious right course for all of them is to compensate for broken time — and this included the RFU . |
| 23 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 24 | Immediately angry , manipulated by these evidently false accusations ( like Coriolanus , Lear can not see that the whole purpose of them is to make him angry ) , Lear regrets the ‘ most small fault ’ that had caused him to disown Cordelia ( 275ff. ) , curses Goneril with appalling violence ( 284ff. ) , and sweeps off to Regan . |
| 25 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ The best way to get rid of them is to baptise them in power . ’ |
| 27 | Well one of them is to show that there is something different about us . |
| 28 | A The surest away of getting rid of them is to cut them down and dig them out . |
| 29 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 30 | If any of them were to inherit the crown , uneasy would lie their head . |