Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious thing seemed to be to retire to bed ; both women felt crushing exhaustion . |
| 2 | Crudely expressed , the librarian 's aim must be to acquire for stock the materials which are likely to be most frequently used . |
| 3 | She was just thinking how easy he 'd be to fall in love with , and that she really must n't start cradle-snatching when he said , ‘ Perdita 's seriously good . |
| 4 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 5 | But in justice I think a society needs civil divorce and that the real concern of the Church and the community should be to work at understanding prevention . |
| 6 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 7 | Indeed , discussions of this aspect often seem to consider the function of health services to be to compensate for deprivation itself rather than for its health damaging effects . |
| 8 | It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions . |
| 9 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 10 | My advice , if it did , would be to bear in mind that ridicule works best better than invective . |
| 11 | If we are not to be disillusioned , therefore , and retreat back into the relative safety and tranquillity of the withdrawal unit , part of our responsibility as teachers of children with special educational needs must be to tackle with class teachers ways to improve the curriculum at the level of general class-room practice . |
| 12 | The objectives will be to explore in detail some of the key concepts in this field , notably work , parenthood , and health and consider the most appropriate way of operationalising and measuring them . |
| 13 | First , I am directing Leicestershire county council to establish a statutory and legally chaired inquiry whose terms of reference will be to inquire into management responses to complaints or other prima facie evidence of abuse , malpractice or other related matters in Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 ; and any other relevant management and personnel management matters during that period or subsequently . |
| 14 | Since probabilities can be multiplied as well as added , one way of making effects among small probabilities comparable with effects when the probabilities are nearer 0.5 might be to look at ratios rather than differences . |
| 15 | ‘ If you want to identify your target groups , the easiest way would be to look at people 's living rooms . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 17 | If you want to buy expensive goods , the best advice must be to buy from stores in Britain ( because here , your complaint is with the retailer , not the manufacturer ) and to campaign for EC consumer protection laws . |
| 18 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 19 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 20 | If you are too domineering in your handshake ( and this may be to overcompensate for nerves ) you will antagonize the interviewer who will subconsciously feel threatened on his/her own territory . |
| 21 | The object of reform should be to require of trade unions the same degree of responsibility within law that is at present required of corporations . |
| 22 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 23 | In setting up a method of intervention the main problems you will face will be to do with consequences ; rewarding , withholding rewards , and punishing . |
| 24 | Why he did not sustain the promise of the works of the 1890s is not clear , though it is certainly connected with the change to a much more conservative and less experimental architectural climate in Britain in the 1900s , when there was a revival of baroque and French Renaissance architecture ; it may also be to do with Townsend 's own equivocal and confused attitude towards the value of architectural traditions . |
| 25 | I do n't think the whole question of cars and safety has never really been looked at properly it all seems to do , to be to do with cars and performance and I would like to see a lot more about cars and safety and like |
| 26 | What would there be to do in Hillmarden ? ’ |
| 27 | Mr Godfray also suggested that the constructive approach would be to stress to MPs the importance of books in education and training — two of the government 's pet issues — rather than concentrating on an anti-VAT message , which might fall on rather deafer ears . |
| 28 | He seemed to think that a policeman 's lot should be to deal in drama . |
| 29 | Several , for instance , are deciduous , and the only way to have berries at Christmas would be to emigrate to Chile . |
| 30 | Under existing UK tax legislation , the right to tax credits payable under the double tax treaty to US companies can be withdrawn and one option could be to start with companies based in California where the state tax authorities have been allowed to tax foreign-owned companies on a formula-apportioned share of worldwide group income . |