Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither is anyone going to fetch and carry for you when you are in bed with influenza , or be there to patch you up when you fall over , burn or cut yourself . |
| 2 | And they had had a discussion about it , speculating as to whether he actually lived there or was there to kill something , rats , moles , any sort of infestation . |
| 3 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 4 | In other cases , we have regulations that are ostensibly to do with health or technical standards and can therefore be applied to goods coming from the rest of the EEC as well . |
| 5 | I have just completed a round of visits to most of the fund raising regions in England and Wales and I 've been most impressed by the preparations that are underway to prepare for our seventy fifth birthday . |
| 6 | Erm , the , the regional conference will be a major national and indeed international conference and I think it 's important that are there to participate and influence what goes on in the future . |
| 7 | DO N'T DAMAGE THE FENCES THAT ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOU . |
| 8 | By a curious twist of fate , it was precisely Nizan 's implacable opposition to fascism and his deep commitment to Republican France that were ultimately to place him in contradiction with the imperialist war thesis advocated by the Communist International a few months later . |
| 9 | Potentially more important , and significant for the further advances on European integration that were yet to come , was the decision to establish a Court of Justice . |
| 10 | It is more than a year since the red and white surveyors ' poles glinted above the reeds , blazing a trail for the draglines that were soon to follow . |
| 11 | This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow . |
| 12 | England 's oldest enemy was now united with her newest , with results that were soon to become apparent . |
| 13 | It was here that attitudes and issues began emerging that were later to assume national significance and where parties were being transformed into empty shells , the eventual fate of parties at both the national and state levels . |
| 14 | By 1100 , the Avon had been diverted to power mills that were later to become the property of the Benedictine Monastery . |
| 15 | Stalin was not to know that his criteria would exclude many nations that were subsequently to emerge ( for example , Pakistan , without a common language or territory , but with a common religion ) , and force some groups into being nations ( the most notorious example being the black American population ) . |
| 16 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 17 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 18 | From Hume 's standpoint , it is of course precisely this tendency to mistake succession for identity that is chiefly to blame for the metaphysical doctrine of substance as an enduring and unanalysable substratum behind the observable changes . |
| 19 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 21 | While this company-suggested compromise seemed likely to settle the waste issue for the immediate future , another threat to Raybestos ' operations had entered the scene the previous month , a threat that was finally to end Raybestos 's operations in Ireland . |
| 22 | In attempting to carry out his economic policies the President had frequently met a central problem that was also to obstruct the social reforms he had promised — the difficulty of persuading Congress to pass the necessary legislation . |
| 23 | It was his own early instincts as a risk taker which first put him on the path that was ultimately to lead to him becoming chairman and chief executive of Hilton International . |
| 24 | He was therefore able to expand his studies in the way that was ultimately to produce Capital , his main theoretical work . |
| 25 | FLASHBACK one year — and joy that was soon to turn to despair for Eubank , with Michael Watson moments away from collapse Pictures : CHRIS GRIEVE |
| 26 | This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent . |
| 27 | Then , with perfect timing , another element entered my life that was soon to prove so important . |
| 28 | It was this implied indictment that was soon to bring so much wrath down on his head . |
| 29 | In common with many other Latin American countries , it was the weakness of technical and administrative institutions in charge of peasant agriculture that was partly to blame for the failure of a rural development policy . |
| 30 | The first of these errors lay in devoting their whole strength , defensively , to the ‘ aerial barrage ’ that was notionally to seal the air space above the German lines . |