Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 2 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 3 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 4 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 5 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 6 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 7 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 8 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 9 | If we are to see a solution ot the problems in Yugoslavia , it must be one that addresses minority rights . |
| 10 | Survey team : Representatives of local community groups and the Rev Michael Collins , Administrator of Long Tower , with members of the Foyle Community Unit Needs Assessment Team , who are to conduct a Health and Social Care survey in the Brandywell area . |
| 11 | Residents of Killuney Park , a luxury cul-de-sac on whose doorstep the school would be built are to lodge a protest with the DoE 's Planning Service . |
| 12 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 13 | The mission had been to penetrate a terrorist base in Libya and eliminate all personnel , which included Salim Al-Makesh , an advisor to the Black June , a movement founded by Abu Nidal in I976 in protest at the involvement of Syria in the Lebanese civil war , and Jean-Jacques Bernard , a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 14 | I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school . |
| 15 | However , this barrier was removed by s. 3 of the 1978 Act , the effect of which has been to enable a party to bring an action against any one partner for the recovery of the partnership debt irrespective of the liability of other partners . |
| 16 | So , the insects which feed on nectar need a very well-developed time sense if they are to secure a meal easily . |
| 17 | Richard Rielly asked him for his views on Graham Kelly 's plea for clubs to share grounds if England are to stand a chance of hosting the nineteen ninety eight World Cup finals . |
| 18 | If I am to find a criticism , it is in the rather erratic organisation of the material . |
| 19 | FAMILY doctors are to launch a campaign to win public sympathy in their fight to opt out of providing round-the-clock patient care , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 20 | It was resolved that ‘ the immediate objects of the Society are to establish a Fund by subscription , for collecting by premiums [ prizes ] well-authenticated facts relating to the diseases in horses , cows and sheep , their treatment and cure : — for establishing an extensive communication with foreign veterinary societies : — for the speedy and general circulation of such memoirs on the diseases of horses , cows and sheep as may be communicated to the Society ; — for providing an hospital for diseases in horses , cows and sheep : — and for promoting the science of Farriery by the regular education in it , on medical and anatomical principles ’ . |
| 21 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 22 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 23 | In Robert Robson 's view , Mayfest 's main functions are to provide a platform for major Scottish work , to play host to quality work from overseas and to celebrate community initiatives . |
| 24 | If concessive holists are to provide a solution to the problem of holism rather than a mere rule of thumb , they must justify their claim that holist and individualist explanations are , if not complementary , at least capable of coexistence . |
| 25 | Aims are to provide an opportunity for industry and the University to meet , and assess each other 's needs , and for industry to find out what we are doing . |
| 26 | The projects ' objectives are to provide an account of the social processes by which labour demands are generated , jobs formulated , personnel specifications developed and employees recruited and selected , and thus to increase our understanding of the ways in which people and jobs are matched in the labour market . |
| 27 | The real difficulty has always been to find an alternative to the Hegelian dialectic — difficult because strictly speaking it is impossible , insofar as the operation of the dialectic already includes its negation . |
| 28 | The initial objective of the ITE initiative had been to encourage a reorientation of the work supported by ITAB into avenues of relevance to the engineering community , using the existing committee structure as far as possible . |
| 29 | Young people must discover faith for themselves and make it truly their own if they are to find a foundation for life . |
| 30 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |