Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having read again a book he had admired when studying at Edinburgh , a book much concerned with precisely such comparisons and contrasts — his grandfather Brasmus Darwin 's Zoönomia ( 1794–6 ) — he was soon taking its title for the opening heading of his Notebook B , where he was now to pursue his own inquiry into ‘ the laws of life ’ . |
| 2 | Although Nizan was later to pour scorn on the moral self-righteousness and indignation of a non-communist majority in France venting its spleen on the treacherousness of the USSR , 8 and although he was also to recognise the Soviet Union 's need to act expediently at a time of impending international disaster , 9 nonetheless something fundamental had clearly snapped in Nizan 's psychology . |
| 3 | Although he was only to win a third of the tickets that Rudi had won , this dog was used extensively by successful breeders , which is the true test of a great dog . |
| 4 | If his leaning is towards the physical side , or his leaning towards to biological side , to take chemistry , biology and physics , to take those subjects in the sixth form at A level , and then come straight to university and develop his inclinations in the way that he is here to do . |
| 5 | In the next moment after Peter has been so firmly put right by Jesus , he has an experience that he is never to forget . |
| 6 | If the process is to be continued , I hope that his Prime Minister will ensure that he is there to continue it . |
| 7 | ‘ It is wonderful for me that he is there to talk to . |
| 8 | Najibullah urges US to face ‘ reality ’ : Afghanistan 's president tells Ahmed Rashid in Kabul that the powers backing the mujahedin will have to recognise that he is there to stay |
| 9 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 10 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 11 | Gloucester claimed that the weapons had been intended for use against him , a story that he was later to use in an attempt to have the captured Woodvilles executed , although Mancini comments that no one took it seriously . |
| 12 | Many of the arguments that he was later to use in his campaign against integration of French forces in NATO were first rehearsed in speeches and press conferences between 1949 and 1954 : for example , the unacceptability of a command structure that placed French troops and assets under non-French control ; or the inherent unreliability of the American nuclear umbrella , once the USSR had acquired the bomb . |
| 13 | Ramsey afterwards felt that he was partly to blame that he and Fisher were not closer together . |
| 14 | He puts his arms round her , and insists that he was partly to blame as well . |
| 15 | But the truth is that he was never to publish poetry again : he had come to the end of his creative life . |
| 16 | It was his strength that he was never to lose that capacity to measure everything against his past — however much others might sneer at it . |
| 17 | Ben watched , fascinated , barely hearing their words , but aware of their significance , and of the significance of the fact that he was there to hear them . |
| 18 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 19 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 20 | John Lill now has over sixty concertos in his repertoire , but we know he retains his special affection for Brahms , and he is soon to record both concertos for the second time . |
| 21 | These days Konitz plays everything from standards to samba — he 's recently recorded a wonderfully relaxed album with Brazilian accompanists , Lee Konitz in Rio — and he 's shortly to tour the UK . |
| 22 | and he 's away to get fed . |
| 23 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 24 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 25 | In October 1317 the earl seized the royal castles of Knaresborough and Alton , Staffordshire , then in Damory 's custody , and he was later to accuse Damory of plotting against his life . |
| 26 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
| 27 | When Neville Chamberlain became Mayor of Birmingham in 1915 , he was the eighth member of the family to hold the office in half a century , and he was never to forget the influence of his local roots . |
| 28 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
| 29 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |
| 30 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |