Example sentences of "[be] [pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been my job anyway to make as little as possible of it , but it certainly was n't difficult to do because nobody seemed that bothered , ’ he says . |
| 2 | It had been her intention simply to pocket the card , contemptuously , without bothering to glance at it , but something in that darkly uncaring face of his sparked a flash of angry curiosity within her . |
| 3 | ‘ It is my business always to make notices . |
| 4 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 5 | As I indicated , colleagues , it 's my intention now to go round the regions and ask regions whether they wish to put a speaker in . |
| 6 | It is thy nature always to have mercy . |
| 7 | But does he ever feel that it is his fate never to become World Champion ? |
| 8 | So is anybody in immediate problems at the moment or you 're o Okay , so , I 'll , it 's your chance now to do some work then for the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 9 | It 's our turn now to give life back to whales and dolphins . |
| 10 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 11 | This is our chance therefore to bring another aspect of the developing culture to our own doorsteps . |
| 12 | Basically , however , it is our practice only to paddle on Sundays in the fishing season and not even then on certain rivers when the salmon are running . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it is our task here to make concrete suggestions as well as to stimulate ideas . |
| 14 | It has been our purpose here to indicate what has been successful in the past , and the strong technical basis which underpins success . |
| 15 | It was my fortune scarcely to have seen |
| 16 | It was my practice never to record anything , especially conversations , after three days … it is surprising how efficient one 's memory can become with practice . ’ |
| 17 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 18 | He referred to the Unemployed Electrician , but it was his habit never to concede that anyone in the team had a personal name . |
| 19 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 20 | It was his job now to maintain order and keep them moving smoothly . |
| 21 | But much more serious to Mr Frohnmayer 's cause was his reluctance publicly to discredit his opponents by pointing out inaccuracies and misrepresentations in their charges ; to defend the endowment 's choices when defence was appropriate ( as in many cases it was ) ; and to mount a solid campaign on the agency 's behalf before the American people . |
| 22 | It was his policy never to keep staff below executive level too long — it eliminated the danger of their learning too much . |