Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 2 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 3 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 4 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 5 | Sheila Hancock agrees that a great deal of the Williams intellectual showing off was to rid himself of the ‘ Carry On ’ persona . |
| 6 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 7 | She would have liked to know just which passages in the book her hostess found objectionable , but it was plain that the only way to find out was to study it for herself . |
| 8 | The only possible course now was to gamble everything on becoming king . |
| 9 | The important thing now was to let him save face . |
| 10 | His main priority now was to get them to safety . |
| 11 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 12 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 13 | The patterns of public accountability in the British constitutional set-up are extremely complex , and all I have been able to do here is to alert you to some key issues of relevance to the subject matter of this book . |
| 14 | The idea here is to decide which of the possibilities is the most likely one . |
| 15 | When the pet can no longer enjoy a good quality of life or is suffering , your responsibility then is to free him from aches , pains and indignities , to let him die peacefully and with dignity . |