Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 2 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 3 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 4 | You know we we used to sell thousand of pounds worth a year and now we 're down to couple of thousand a year and we 're s , we are losing money on that . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not to think of it , my dear . ’ |
| 6 | If this is all we are ever to have of each other , let's use every second given to us . |
| 7 | According to IBM Corp , which is busy trying to salvage and make sense of its core business , we are now to think of the mainframe as the complete server . |
| 8 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 9 | As it seemed , if she were not to die of her love she had to poison it ; and even , over its death agonies , to exult . |
| 10 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 11 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 12 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 13 | Where there is usually to pop of a toy cannon , there is silence and , come to think of it , I do n't remember hearing the clock strike midnight either . |
| 14 | To speak of a ‘ significant other ’ among social classes in a given national modernism is also to speak of the culture associated with that significant other class . |
| 15 | He can not equate it with ‘ ought ’ since , according to him , to speak of what one ought to do is simply to speak of what will have the best consequences . |
| 16 | Now one of , a very good way of getting in , is actually to think of the editor 's problems during the course of the year . |
| 17 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 18 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 19 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 20 | The training officer , who endorsed all this had picked up his standards from his dealing director , who was later to claim of him : " He was like a lost lamb when he started . |
| 21 | The education he received culminated at Oxford and , like others both before and after , he was later to complain of the diet of scholasticism he was fed there . |
| 22 | I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes . |
| 23 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 24 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 25 | She sighed crossly , was about to dispose of the paper when a wicked thought possessed her . |
| 26 | One of the more intractable problems was how to dispose of the effluent in an ecologically acceptable way . |
| 27 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 28 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 29 | She was never to learn of his plans as he sailed for New York the next day and never returned . |
| 30 | Sadly the beloved eldest brother , Beverley , who had poured cold water on the whole idea of Eva going to Africa , was never to hear of her success . |