Example sentences of "[noun sg] be there to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused . |
| 2 | The crease is there to be used , but he does not use it . |
| 3 | Football 's there to be enjoyed . |
| 4 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 5 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 6 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 7 | How much flexibility is there to folio " a shifting target ? |
| 8 | By contrast , the political culture of the United States , always more populist in character than the British , took seriously the notion that public opinion was there to be wooed , cajoled , seduced but never ignored . |
| 9 | ‘ If the ball is there to be won and you 've got to go in to win that ball for your team , then maybe you are going to be in a 40-60 situation — and you 've still got to go in . |
| 10 | Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public . |
| 11 | Yet the sign is there to be read . |
| 12 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 13 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 14 | The ground is there to be covered . |
| 15 | Certainly , the claim was there to be used to Edward 's advantage . |
| 16 | ‘ I was satisfied up to a point today , but the game was there to be taken . |
| 17 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 18 | Nevertheless the idyllic side of undergraduate life was there to be enjoyed — though short on male companions as the pre-war ratio of male and female undergraduates was about reversed . |
| 19 | Well the potential is there to be more open about how you devise … how bits fit together , and how they relate . |
| 20 | Yet the challenge is there to be met . |
| 21 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
| 22 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 23 | He and all the scholars in company were there to " say together Psalm 130 De Profundis with the versicles and collect thereto accustomed after Salisbury use . |
| 24 | Er the structure is there to , to be used . |
| 25 | The nature of that artefact , its meanings and position within the culture may be open to debate , but the assumption is that the document is there to be deciphered . |
| 26 | But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it . |
| 27 | And this press was there to be read because under a range of pressures from open repression to financial disadvantage some men took initiatives to use the technology for their own as opposed to the dominant social purposes . |
| 28 | They deny their own law , denying my right , and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment . |