Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , you will need to be particularly careful with your diet if you are not to suffer from fatigue . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 3 | To eliminate these defects we must remove the reference to inference and tighten up the relation specified between the false beliefs and the true justified ones which are not to count as knowledge . |
| 4 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 5 | But I do n't need to remind you that we 're here to collect for display groups in the Sherman Museum . |
| 6 | ‘ The problems are usually to do with family tension and parents rowing , separating and divorcing . |
| 7 | To their credit , The Cherrys are more to do with cartoon frenzies than the slick professionalism which seemingly warrants a Spin front cover at the drop of a bobble hat , but it 's as hollow a victory as Linford Christie 's Olympic Gold in the absence of Carl Lewis . |
| 8 | District Nurses and Health Visitors are able to provide services which are more to do with health and nursing care . |
| 9 | Usually though , our crises are more to do with logistics . |
| 10 | In other cases , we have regulations that are ostensibly to do with health or technical standards and can therefore be applied to goods coming from the rest of the EEC as well . |
| 11 | Poor hygiene and handling are also to blame for food poisoning . |
| 12 | Central South saw what they 'd achieved by 1991 , and now we 've been back to check on progress . |
| 13 | The tell-tale signs of drug use are mainly to do with behaviour ; sudden mood swings , poor concentration , disturbed sleep patterns , apathy , loss of memory and , if the addiction is an expensive one , stealing and lying . |
| 14 | Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management . |
| 15 | These messages are often to do with guilt : ‘ I do n't deserve things to go well for me . ’ |
| 16 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 17 | Mr Lang 's caution about the timing of the bill is thought to be more to do with protocol rather than an indication that the whole issue might be delayed . |
| 18 | ‘ College in the morning and then I 'll be back to wait at lunch . ’ |
| 19 | But I can still see myself , trembling with fear of Jack ( and yes , for him , too ) , desperately ringing a mental hospital I thought should not be there to ask for help with an ‘ illness ’ I thought did n't really exist . |
| 20 | ‘ Crockford ! ’ he said , and appeared to be about to go in search . |
| 21 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 22 | For social workers the task is likely to be primarily to act as co-ordinator of services , but the counselling and supporting role for carer and cared for must not be overlooked . |
| 23 | I am about to set in motion a peculiar process that will result in a $10 million loan to a Philippine construction company , a bedfellow of the Marcos clan — a loan that will soon go sour . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen , I am about to go to lunch . |
| 25 | It was a signal peculiar to Thames river — I am about to get under way . |
| 26 | A new range of children 's birthday cards which carry warnings about the danger of accidents are about to go on sale . |
| 27 | The chances are it will blow up into a huge row , or even a fight , just as you are about to go on stage at the Marquee . |
| 28 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 29 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 30 | He drew an analogy with pre-incorporation contracts in domestic law , and concluded that similar agreements could be made in international law on behalf of States which are about to come into existence . |