Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see Thee is the end and the beginning , |
| 2 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 3 | Nails are easier to use than screws ; all you need to drive them is a hammer ( see below ) . |
| 4 | Secondly , the attitude that women are on their own only until they find a man to support them is a prevalent one . |
| 5 | I 'm not going to pretend I 'm a teetotaller . |
| 6 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 7 | They know that , unless I am very fortunate , the only chance I 'll have to catch them is the moment in which they take the ransom , and they know equally well that you wo n't risk your daughter 's life by telling me where that 's going to happen . |
| 8 | Regularly used in connection with such occasions-and very probably the term used to designate them is the word " honouring " : for example , and the honouring of accession and of campaign respectively ; and for the more personal occasions , and the honouring of one 's becoming kazasker and Mufti respectively . |
| 9 | Getting to know me was a bad idea . ’ |
| 10 | It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out . |
| 11 | Then Milosh said , " Have I your leave , O Tsar , to try to guess which is the princess ? " |
| 12 | They could be asked to guess which was the earliest , and to give reasons for their choice . |
| 13 | But while a single essay might draw in this way on more than one perspective , it is important to establish which is the primary or organising mode of argument and what is the primary focus around which an essay is based . |
| 14 | A policy which will consider not only air pollution , but problems such as energy efficiency , safety , noise , the implication of different systems of transport on cities and the countryside and ultimately society at large , to establish which are the most environmentally sound and economically efficient methods of moving from A to B for the sake of both humans and the planet . |
| 15 | That would be the only way to establish which was the shortest . |
| 16 | It is interesting to discover which are the ants ' favourite foods . |
| 17 | It is not possible , using this technique , to discover which is the semantic head in the highest construction in a simple sentence , that is to say , the subject-predicate construction . |
| 18 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 19 | Use a little star to indicate which is the asymmetric centre which kiral centre and all it means is that if you were to dra , if you had a a kiral molecule in other words , it had four different groups attached to it what it means is that it and it 's mirror image , this is the way you actually draw it and answer the questions you draw you draw it as if there was a mirror image . |
| 20 | Eventually Rain said : ‘ Barbara Coleman has been threatened , Edouard has been beaten up and Sabine Jourdain has been murdered — and all because no one is to know she was the painter and not Durance . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 're beautiful , and it would make it easy to guess you were a receptionist for a high-powered company . |
| 22 | It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone . |
| 23 | IT IS difficult to know who is the more isolated : the 62 members of the Lebanese Parliament or the 73 members of the Lebanese press corps . |
| 24 | It is hard to know who was the more aggrieved by this insult . |
| 25 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 26 | After five people have been ‘ killed ’ , the chosen person has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 27 | FACIAL expressions made it difficult to guess who was the man on a working honeymoon here yesterday . |
| 28 | It can sometimes be difficult to establish who is the householder in a particular case . |
| 29 | The pleasantly incoherent CIA/FBI mindgames-in-the-desert thriller White Sands may be stronger on visuals than plot or dialogue but it does allow Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke to bounce off each other moodily in an attempt to discover who is the bigger existential dude . |
| 30 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |