Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Please find enclosed a copy of the text for your entry in this Directory , which we are about to send for printing . |
| 32 | They had been about to leave for Mass when Una had suddenly taken ill . |
| 33 | Firstly they have , from Banbury School at least , four specific parent Governors , who are there to act on behalf of parents . |
| 34 | But I would like to point out in this video , and on the brochure that goes with it , actually says the rest of the field are there to follow on horseback or on foot or by car , very few people indeed actually witness the death of a fox . |
| 35 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 36 | If these predictions were not to agree with observation , we could conclude that the universe is not in the no-boundary state . |
| 37 | A new German willingness to compromise on farm subsidies , however , emerged on Oct. 9 , and by Oct. 14 the GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel was able to tell the IMF/World Bank meeting in Bangkok that there were real prospects of concluding the Uruguay Round by end-year , a deadline he had presented as crucial if the whole process were not to end in failure . |
| 38 | Direct English military intervention was now necessary if the duchy were not to collapse into chaos . |
| 39 | Nationalism , yes , but not narrow : what Burke meant by ‘ the little platoon ’ , and a modern writer in small being beautiful , for the greater the overall unit ( and the Common Market was then looming ) , the greater the necessity for autonomy within that unit , if those being governed were still to feel in touch with those governing . |
| 40 | All the slight injuries happened at roundabouts on Northgate , Bondgate , Parkgate and North Road Mr Graham Hamilton , of Darlington Freewheelers , said car drivers were often to blame for bike accidents and called for new measures to raise awareness . |
| 41 | His ambitions were n't to do with television , however , we discovered . |
| 42 | specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch |
| 43 | Its impact upon the Church was considerable — especially perhaps in England ; its conclusions were chiefly to do with discipline , and its provision requiring annual confession and Communion , remains today . |
| 44 | The 44ft ( 13.4m ) yacht belongs to the charter company International Ocean Ventures and her nine crew were there to learn about ocean cruising — the hard way . |
| 45 | Just as they were about to explode with rage the head of the agency appeared . |
| 46 | I thought that they were about to come to fruition . |
| 47 | Most important of all was the fact that he was devoted to imperial service ; thus his role as chancellor and Barbarossa 's role as emperor were seldom to come into conflict . |
| 48 | Both exhibitions are primarily to do with art , with scholarship playing a subservient role . |
| 49 | Empowerment enthusiasts say it is all to do with company culture and ensuring that employees are all fully conversant with the corporate goals and mission . |
| 50 | It is all to do with progress for progress ' sake . |
| 51 | It 's just that feeling light or heavy is all to do with gravity . |
| 52 | And yet presenting food is all to do with drama . |
| 53 | But the idea that this is all to do with long-windedness is quite wrong . |
| 54 | It 's all to do with motivation . |
| 55 | It 's all to do with memory and word association . |
| 56 | But yesterday 45-year-old Keith insisted : ‘ I know some people are going to say it 's all to do with Ecstasy but , honestly , it 's not . |
| 57 | ‘ Well , it 's all to do with harmony . |
| 58 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 59 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 60 | The aim of this study is thus to examine in detail different kinds of provision for children with special needs in the first year of secondary schooling . |