Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lac d'Aumar and its satellite , the Lac d'Aubert , which are on and up from the Lac d'Oredon , are somewhere to spend the day . |
| 2 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 3 | The influence of the ‘ Annales ’ school of historical writing has been largely to place the study of war in the wider social , economic , and cultural background of the societies in which it was fought , to make war part of ‘ total ’ history . |
| 4 | ‘ I am shortly to wed the daughter of the dauphin of France — thus to promote amity between our two countries . |
| 5 | A lot of other people might well agree that the Citroen-Peugeot XUD engine is the most refined small diesel in its class — not least Rover , who now fit it in their medium-sized 200 and 400 Rovers , and are soon to offer a version on the Metro . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the SparcWorks compilers that are used to re-compile for both platforms are soon to get a re-working , including a name change , says Zander , but there will be no cross-compiler . |
| 7 | You 're here to do a job , get on with it as unemotionally as possible . |
| 8 | We 're here to serve the public . ’ |
| 9 | They 're here to settle a dispute over whether or not to build a loo in the vestry of the fourteenth century church . |
| 10 | You 're here to share the workload . |
| 11 | We 're here to Lend a Hand … |
| 12 | Instead he said : ‘ Look , we 're here to run a power station efficiently and safely . |
| 13 | If the former Soviet Union and all the republics are ever to put the situation right , the most urgent job is to bring about economic reform . |
| 14 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 15 | Private indigenous entrepreneurs in Nigeria are still to cultivate the discipline of conserving more than they consume of their trade surplus and of re-investing such surpluses to expand the firm . |
| 16 | Understanding the gender-specific connotations of certain fields of learning is crucial if we are also to comprehend the process by which gender inequality is produced in education . |
| 17 | Visitors from Hurworth are also to tour the ship on Sunday . |
| 18 | Sybase says this is what Unix and distributed systems need , however , if they are really to challenge the mainframe . |
| 19 | Whilst that may be interesting ( and I am not suggesting that we should refrain totally from such activity ) , something more is needed if we are really to approach the Earth and the earth spirit with any depth and with any hope of useful results . |
| 20 | The Maestro and Montego will continue to be built at the south works , but negotiations are underway to sell the Maestro production line to Bulgaria . |
| 21 | Already in Rio de Janeiro extensive preparations are underway to clean the city before the arrival of one hundred and forty five world leaders . |
| 22 | Plans are underway to apply the technique to other types of cancer as well . |
| 23 | Steps are underway to find a coordinator for the service , and to appoint members to the ENS board . |
| 24 | Meetings are underway to redesign the country 's water system , particularly as 75 per cent of France 's power supply is generated by nuclear reactors which rely on water for their cooling systems . |
| 25 | Even at the poorer end of the scale , the effect of the distribution of benefits in cash and in kind had been substantially to equalize the wealth of older and poorer people . |
| 26 | To adopt an approach akin to that used in the United States would be fundamentally to alter the rationale for judicial review . |
| 27 | All in all , there will be much to interest the visitor in 1993 . |
| 28 | If they do recommend an envoy , and if President Clinton were to appoint someone like former President Jimmy Carter , the effect would be only to make the problem worse . |
| 29 | For example , as it is very time-consuming to produce a teaching unit , one approach would be only to accept an idea if it could produce a unit that ; ( i ) can be used by a wide range of teachers whose style of teaching varies a great deal ( ii ) can be of use to a wide age-range of pupils ( iii ) can be of use to a wide ability-range of pupils ( iv ) can encourage work on concepts as well as on content ( v ) may be of use in more than one subject discipline ( vi ) is suitable for demonstration mode with a large class ( vii ) is suitable for small groups or individuals to use ( viii ) can be used to produce further teaching materials ( ix ) can be used in teacher-training . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm here to enjoy the sun . ’ |