Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does he take us for , how am I to feed a family of six ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , well , in that case , who am I to deny a man anything ? ’ she laughed , and Travis joined in . |
| 3 | Since therefore I am able to get from myself greatness of soul and nobility , am I to get a farm or money or some office from you ? |
| 4 | Am I to get a Bonio as a reward ? ’ |
| 5 | If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ? |
| 6 | Are you to hazard a guess about when is a settlement not a settlement ? |
| 7 | How then are we to find a conception of mental states other than that on which the sceptical argument trades ? |
| 8 | If there were no House of Lords , there would be nothing to prevent a majority in the Commons from postponing an election by extending Parliament beyond the limit of five years . |
| 9 | ‘ There has to be someone to make a judgement ! ’ |
| 10 | Specifically the grotesque threat that were I to penetrate a woman I would lose my penis . |
| 11 | Were one to create a mouse the size of a moose , that mouse would probably have a folded neocortex if its cortex had increased in proportion to the increase in its body size . |
| 12 | Were they in the interests of freedom to follow tradition and protect and facilitate a march , albeit odious in its characteristics , or were they to seek a ban under the Public Order Act 1936 ? |
| 13 | Were he to join a Government of Conservatives and Liberals , he continued , he would be a ridiculous figure , unable to command support and bringing odium on them as well as on himself . |
| 14 | Whereas pubs are different , they are out , they have to pay a lot of people and their rent and everything else and they are ours to make a profit . |
| 15 | But , as a spokesman for the UN 's International Maritime Organisation said ‘ there 's nothing to stop a tanker 's skipper dumping oil and blaming it on the war ’ . |
| 16 | For , when it comes down to it , there 's nothing to beat a brass band . |
| 17 | There 's nothing to beat a handful of mushrooms in with a rabbit stew . |
| 18 | Of course this is not an absolute distinction , as historical descriptions depend on some kind of theoretical orientation , and theory depends on systematic observation and description of linguistic forms ( otherwise there is nothing to have a theory about ) . |
| 19 | He gives us a murderer whose ‘ words pattered out like smooth large grains ’ — clear and distinguishable , and yet somehow there is nothing to get a purchase on . |
| 20 | But there is nothing to preclude a charge being brought under section 5 even though the arrest was not effected under the section . |
| 21 | Brian Hanson , legal adviser to the Church of England 's General Synod , said : ‘ There is nothing in law that talks about divorce of the sovereign and , therefore , in law there is nothing to prevent a divorcee becoming king . ’ |
| 22 | ( This is the usual course , but there is nothing to prevent a member of any Inn from practising on either side of the profession . ) |
| 23 | There is nothing to prevent a US resident transferring a time deposit denominated in dollars from Big Apple Bank 's New York branch to its London branch to earn a higher interest return as a euro-dollar time deposit . |
| 24 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 25 | It is something to find a brother , Liebchen . ’ |
| 26 | The skin is something to cover a shape we were born with . |
| 27 | So straight forward , there 's something to create a smile about . |
| 28 | He and Stapleton can associate to their hearts ' content and that 's something to bring a smile to his face . |
| 29 | There 's something to have a bash at while you 're relaxing over the Christmas hols ! |
| 30 | What therefore is there to prevent a taxpayer from putting his shares in the name of a nominee and obtaining a deduction from his higher rate tax liability for the nominee 's expenses of management ? |