Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the alternative would be to have had the tea break in between |
| 2 | Counsel for the SFO announced on Feb. 7 , 1992 , that charges against Seelig and David Mayhew ( a stockbroker ) which were to have formed the basis of a third trial had now been withdrawn . |
| 3 | Warnock 's error is to have neglected the necessity , in any account of seeing , of the subject 's capability of noticing what it can be said to perceive . |
| 4 | Secondly , to understand something about the world is to have mastered the use of the relevant concepts , which belong to some organized practice or institution , for example physics or religion . |
| 5 | David Schine , twenty-six , and hired by Cohn as his ‘ consultant ’ , was the heir to a hotel chain , whose proudest achievement was to have made the world 's largest collection of specimen cigars . |
| 6 | Thorpe who was to have headed the bill said that he had been in touch with the promoters earlier in the year and had agreed to come over provided he was given details in writing . |
| 7 | Peter Gabriel was to have headlined the bill which included Del Amitri , The Sawdoctors , The Levellers and local bands Peacefrog and The Adventures , as well as Abba revivalists Bjorn Again . |
| 8 | Perhaps my principal contribution was to have suggested the creation of rent officers and to have advised a formula for ‘ fair rents ’ which rent officers would be able to use in their day-to-day dealings with landlords and tenants . |
| 9 | The rally , which was to have featured all the razzmatazz of an American political campaign , with drum majorettes , a motor cavalcade , bands and balloons , was to have marked the beginning of the ruling National Party 's drive to recruit coloured , black and Indian members . |
| 10 | But the computer company which was to have supplied the computer software and hardware has still not been disclosed by the Dundonald-based board . |