Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 2 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 3 | ‘ You are to confine yourself to a mosque until after the Moulid . |
| 4 | ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’ |
| 5 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 6 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 8 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
| 9 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 10 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 12 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 13 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 14 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 15 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 16 | Even safer — but more costly — is to pump it to a depth of 3000 metres . |
| 17 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 18 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 19 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |
| 20 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the hymns that are the great stumbling block , ’ Everard went on , ‘ but really the only thing is to abandon oneself to the words uncritically and let them flow over one . ’ |
| 22 | How much easier and publicly commendable it is to devote yourself to the parish , however demanding , than to a wife having a nervous breakdown at home . ’ |
| 23 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 24 | HP is to add it to an extension of its Apollo 9000 series 700 workstation family , code-named Scorpio . |
| 25 | Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 26 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 27 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 28 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 29 | Wearing a tidy black suit , Palance throws his carpetbag negligently into the back of Jeff Chandler 's buggy which is to take him to the reservation . |
| 30 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |