Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her final role before the birth has been to co-star with Paul Schofield in a two-hander play for Radio 4 , Rediscovering Leo , to be broadcast next year . |
| 2 | However , the trend in recent years has been to discriminate between consumer and non consumer transactions as seen in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ( UCTA ) . |
| 3 | I think we have to recognize that the effect of these images and the conflicts from which they spring in Brent or Bradford has been to call into question any antiracist or multicultural project in education and indeed the idea of antiracism in general . |
| 4 | Similarly , why waste time and money phoning when the only way you have been able to get your money in the past has been to call in person . |
| 5 | One of Watson 's main contributions to the development of the Modular Course has been to build in evaluation mechanisms at many levels , to foster positive attitudes to evaluation by using evaluation data in course development and not to shrink from its application to his own roles and activities . |
| 6 | One of the most powerful forms of inquiry in recent years has been to look at Renaissance writing produced outside the cultural elite , bringing attention to texts marginalised and ignored by the institutional processes which maintains the traditional canon . |
| 7 | One of my excitements has been to learn about prayer and discipleship from Christians of other traditions . |
| 8 | ‘ All I want is to sing in Hochhauser as usual . |
| 9 | All I want is to get to bed as soon as possible . ’ |
| 10 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 11 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 12 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 13 | What they have done is to look in detail at the impact of two severe floods which hit the little Araglin river in Co Cork in August 1986 and how it has recovered since . |
| 14 | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income , and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind . |
| 15 | The plan adopted was to focus on Medeva 's strengths : vaccines , generic pharmaceuticals and sterile injectables ( mainly products used in hospitals to treat severe pain ) , and to add a range of branded prescription products . |
| 16 | And what she had done was to flee to Scarborough on the back of Wilkie 's motorbike . |
| 17 | All that could be done was to work by analogy . |
| 18 | Cos the other thing I was gon na do was to go into Lloyds , I must do that some time about this interest on that account cos I reckon it 's very low |
| 19 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 20 | Anyway , all we have to do is to go to Florida and put the Thing on one of these going-up jets and it can do the rest , it says . ’ |
| 21 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 22 | What they are trying to do is to arrive at insights which are generally true of all humanity ( including the anthropologists themselves ) by observing very small-scale examples of human life . |
| 23 | I think myself on that the best thing to do is to get in touch with the local chemist |
| 24 | If your computer supports graphics , and most do , the first thing to do is to change from text mode ( the mode that DOS sets up for you ) into graphics mode . |
| 25 | A very simple and effective thing for the teacher to do is to comment on errors , not as a complaint ( " You should know how to spell that word by now " ) but as praise for the attempt . |
| 26 | So the only thing to do was to strike off cross-country . |
| 27 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 28 | Many of those arrested are to appear before magistrates shortly … |
| 29 | Another way of finding useful or appropriate things to read is to look at library catalogues which have been published as books . |
| 30 | Dealing with Francis 's belongings had been a useful excuse , when all I had really wanted was to meet with Leon Kennedy , arrange a conclusive deal . |