Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 2 | The irresistible thing is to suggest that even the most resolute of England 's footballers , ever mindful of the predicament that could result from defeat , are not entirely immune to what awaits them today in Poland . |
| 3 | The only way out of the dilemma is to suppose that sometimes the photon gets through and sometimes it does not . |
| 4 | The ‘ ought ’ of natural law thinking is , in my view , irreducibly a material ought , that is to say that somehow the ‘ ought ’ of natural law predetermines to some extent what can be the content of an ought statement . |
| 5 | In our new MP we have a young man of ability and enthusiasm , whose sole wish is to defend or further the interest of the entire constituency . |