Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 2 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 3 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 4 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 5 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 6 | The two councillors are to monitor the situation over the next few days before seeking a meeting with the RUC 's assistant Chief Constable . |
| 7 | CHILDREN are to preserve the character of a landmark in a tree-planting ceremony . |
| 8 | If you are to enjoy the satisfaction of growing one , clearly it helps to know how to combat all the pests and diseases that conspire to stop you . |
| 9 | The aims of both the programme and the exhibition are to promote the importance of usability in IT systems and to provide suggestions as to how this aspect of systems development can be improved . |
| 10 | Communication is vital if we are to see the quality of a child 's thinking and assess the support it needs . |
| 11 | One alternative option had been to preserve the house as a burnt-out ruin . |
| 12 | They are to attend the banquet as Antony and Cleopatra and hoped to outdo Taylor and Burton . |
| 13 | The contribution of the Conservative government has been to quicken the pace of centralisation , concerned perhaps to exercise greater control of public sector organisations for which privatisation was not an option . |
| 14 | MORE than 1,000 ex-servicewomen are to sue the Ministry of Defence after being sacked for getting pregnant . |
| 15 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 16 | His normal reaction would have been to swing the car in a U-turn to return and tackle the driver of the tractor . |
| 17 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 18 | Residents of Killuney Park , a luxury cul-de-sac on whose doorstep the school would be built are to lodge a protest with the DoE 's Planning Service . |
| 19 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |
| 20 | So the situations which are to stimulate the use of the language being learned will have to be contrived in some way , and the learners will have to co-operate in maintaining the illusion of reality . |
| 21 | The main aims of the workshop are to stimulate the production of media education textbooks and resources for the African context , to equip more people , especially women , as trainers , and to draw up plans for a media education programme in southern and eastern Africa , starting in 1992 . |
| 22 | We have to start with some broad-cut view of the areas of the company which we believe should be encouraged to go ahead , the areas of the company which we believe have got to be held back or even disposed of , those which are to perform the function of cash cows , and those we wish to encourage to develop in more aggressive and adventurous ways than they have hitherto . |
| 23 | British Rail are to remain the employer of the British Transport Police for the immediate future , in order to ensure that the British Transport Police will continue to police the whole of the restructured railway er a an order amending the British Transport Police Force Scheme in nineteen sixty three will be laid before Parliament shortly . |
| 24 | Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned . |
| 25 | His constitutional plan had been to secure the election of his son , the young Frederick , as king , but as soon as the emperor was known to be dead the wisdom of upholding the election of so young an heir was questioned . |
| 26 | The only possible resolution of the difficulty would have been to obtain the consent of both Mr. Brant and the plaintiff to reveal Mr. Perot 's interest to the other . |
| 27 | Richard Rielly asked him for his views on Graham Kelly 's plea for clubs to share grounds if England are to stand a chance of hosting the nineteen ninety eight World Cup finals . |
| 28 | Part of Oxford Polytechnic 's response to accreditation has been to increase the involvement of external reviewers in the quality control process . |
| 29 | This was a backward step , since one of the goals of the Ministry had been to increase the proportion of trained teachers through in-service training to upgrade ‘ empirical ’ teachers , as well as by initial teacher training . |
| 30 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |