Example sentences of "[be] to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most practical means of achieving this would be to partially construct the wall panels on the ground with the uprights and horizontals pegged together ; the wattling would then be inserted and finally the wall plate . |
| 2 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 3 | There is little doubt that the effect would be to drastically reduce the number of generic substitutes supplied by pharmacists . |
| 4 | My ideal would be to not give a damn as much as possible . |
| 5 | The only possible response from the independents would be to also reduce their fares but without the cross-funding safety net . |
| 6 | I thought how nice it would be to just stroll across the road and look at the river , and it appears to be quite simple until you get there and meet I do n't know how many lanes of traffic . |
| 7 | The knowledge of how easy it would be to just reach out and take the Robe of Eyes and wear it and be able to see into other people s deepest thoughts flooded her mind , scaldingly . |
| 8 | The only way in which one could incorporate such fine-grained information from the Text710 would be to completely re-tag the LOB corpus . |
| 9 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 10 | Further stages of investigation using this technique will be to simultaneously measure gastrointestinal motility using conventional manometric methods and to compare this with echo planar imaging as a validation of the imaging technique . |
| 11 | I suppose that a better expression would be to frankly admit I was getting stale . |
| 12 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 13 | While Graham Taylor 's loadsamoney outfit add to their lucrative market value by pulling on England shirts , half-a-dozen of the mountain men 's reward for tackling their Everest will be to actually find themselves out of pocket . |
| 14 | The closing declaration included joint commitments ( i ) to create an Andean Presidential Council whose task would be to further promote the political and economic integration of member countries ; ( ii ) to formulate a common position on future foreign debt negotiations to be presented to the forthcoming Latin American Economic System ( SELA ) ministerial meeting [ see p. 37018 for June 1989 meeting ] ; and ( iii ) to propose a permanent consultative system to press for the full implementation of the February 1990 Cartagena summit 's agreements and measures against illegal drug production and trafficking [ see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 15 | The intended effect , within the province , must be to so terrify the nationalist population that more will turn their backs on Sinn Fein and the IRA . |
| 16 | King 's head for funny business has him periodically indulge in what Lewis describes as the ‘ tactics of fear ’ and the latest example has been to publicly demean Maloney 's management of Lewis . |
| 17 | Fair enough in the circumstances , but since the extended expiry date in 1952 , several growers have received individual concessions and , although the overall aim has been to gradually reduce the Gamay , the fact that at least 20 hectares exist , some 60 years after the law intent on banning the grape was first introduced , surely indicates that a certain laisser-faire attitude has been taken by successive administrations . |
| 18 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 19 | Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . |
| 20 | It is now widely recognised that the impact of overall EEC farm policy has been to further widen the differential between the advantaged and disadvantaged areas . |
| 21 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 22 | Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course . |
| 23 | Success can be claimed in this area in the arrival of some new operators in the market such as Centric Pub Company , Marr Taverns , Scorpio Inns , Discovery Inns and Enterprise Inns , whose formation has been to specifically run multiple freehouse operations . |
| 24 | Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time . |
| 25 | THREE public service unions planning a merger to create a 1.4 million-strong organisation are to simply call it Unison and not use the term union in its name . |
| 26 | Omni Hotels Asia-Pacific and Barito Pacific Group are to jointly develop a luxury full-service hotel in Jakarta , Indonesia . |
| 27 | Pyramid Technology Corp teamed up with Chicago-based Comdisco Inc and Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week : the three announced they are to jointly develop and market open system alternatives for the IBM mainframe market . |
| 28 | Oceanport , New Jersey , Concurrent Computer Corp and FD Consulting , New York , are to jointly develop enhanced versions of FD 's market information system and real-time Ticker processing system for Concurrent 's range of Unix-based real-time systems . |
| 29 | Ready Systems Inc , Sunnyvale , California and Norwegian firm Enea Data AB are to jointly develop and sell new real-time software for the embedded systems market : under the deal Enea will also integrate its OSE kernel into Ready 's Spectra backplane . |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co and Intel Corp are to jointly develop a chip set for the HP 700/RX family of i960 RISC-based X stations ; the circuit devices will use Intel 's i960 Cx series of superscalar microprocessors to provide chip-set solutions for X station applications . |