Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 Right you 're to match it with a bear .
2 Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap .
3 But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex .
4 The best precaution would be to deposit them with the bank .
5 The best solution may be to leave them with the society .
6 If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges .
7 But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths .
8 And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’
9 Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power .
10 After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her .
11 If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably .
12 To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority .
13 Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue .
14 If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain .
15 The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response .
16 The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time .
17 Every child knows that the way to break the most intractable toffee is to hit it with a poker .
18 Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course .
19 In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement .
20 The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order .
21 Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee .
22 It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion .
23 COOK 'S NOTE : The easiest way to crumble any blue cheese is to stroke it with a fork until crumbled .
24 ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick .
25 The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type .
26 The traditional way to prevent corrosion is to suspend a ‘ sacrificial ’ magnesium anode in the cistern ; the best solution with a corroded cold water cistern is to replace it with a new plastic one .
27 The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape .
28 For example , to commit an account of an incident to paper is to endow it with a permanence and visibility to senior staff which may result in the creation of further — seemingly unnecessary — work .
29 Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism .
30 The ideal is to coat them with a good flexible roofing compound while still sound , which can extend the life of a roof by up to 20 years .
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