Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without time to think , the only alternative would be to stand paralysed by shock , unaware of what is happening to me , or be aware of the danger but too confused to know how to escape in the instant available . |
| 2 | ‘ To do a deal with the Liberal Democrats would be to help put in power a party which has just lost a share of its vote , ’ said one source . |
| 3 | We saw in Chapter 7 how the enemy is ‘ homosexualized ’ , with the result that , even while homosexuals were being imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis , it could be said that to eliminate homosexuality would be to get rid of fascism . |
| 4 | ‘ When the entity of the mandate ended , ’ he said , ‘ two other states — Jewish and Arab — were to have come into existence but the Arab state did not . |
| 5 | The main thrust of AimTech 's business is to remain dedicated to marketing IconAuthor , however . |
| 6 | So , that might be something to bear in mind , that it 's not just the negative part , get rid of the excess sort of organics , but it 's to get rid of cure disease . |
| 7 | My priority is to get rid of discrimination and we shall have to find out which of the various possibilities will be the best alternative to that which is now proposed . |
| 8 | I should not like to commit myself too closely to any one of them because my priority — in negotiating one must be clear about one 's priority — is to get rid of discrimination . |
| 9 | Initially the aim is to get called for interview , and this is the hardest part . |
| 10 | Plans for NeXTStep 486 were revealed at NeXTWorld Expo back in January ( UX No 370 ) , and the environment was to have gone into beta test in June : that wo n't now happen until the New Year . |
| 11 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 12 | My first objective was to get rid of Blenkinsop . |
| 13 | This is the time when what was to become known as civilisation could have been detected , and is the period to which the origins of the concept of ‘ goodness ’ can be attributed . |