Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 2 | Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy . |
| 3 | The problem underlying all of this is the tendency either to group people rigidly by arbitrary features , such as impairment , or to treat people uniformly . |
| 4 | While the primary virtue is the ability efficiently to get results , the dependence of senior staff on the man in the field for a continuous supply of information also places a premium on his knowledge . |
| 5 | why , why is the necessity though to accept joined writing |
| 6 | Is the policy now to stick to what you know ? |
| 7 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 8 | Its key tenets are : 1 The customer comes first : The first and most important characteristic of total quality is the search continually to meet , and even exceed , the customer 's demands and expectations . |
| 9 | The second element of the mens rea in theft is the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 10 | Is the aim simply to control inflation , or does the government wish also to affect output and employment , or does it want to control the exchange rate ? |
| 11 | What is often not appreciated is the need also to provide a stable and profitable agriculture that can support the infrastructure it needs There is a danger that farmers will not be given adequate incentives to grow produce efficiently and environmentally responsibly . |
| 12 | Few people realise just how basic is the need deliberately to look for alternatives . |
| 13 | But here is the place briefly to consider the overall impact of the Vikings on the West Frankish economy . |
| 14 | Now I 'm not going to be pedantic and say anything under two minutes is unacceptable two minutes is the guideline just to give you an idea of what would be a good idea . |
| 15 | It 's the way forward to attract and meet the needs of other unions and possible amalgamations and merges . |
| 16 | What 's happened it 's the world again to use J B Phillips translation this time the Romans twelve two , that , that the world the precious around us has pushed us here and is as dented at there and it squeezed us out of the mould , the purpose the pattern that God had for us , into its own mould , a warped mould , a distorted picture , that has what has happened . |
| 17 | Now , he concluded gloomily , some the best examples of the Gibbons technique were destroyed and where was the expertise today to replace them ? |
| 18 | And was the water there to go down into the villages ? |
| 19 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 20 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 21 | It was the custom then to double the size of most infantry battalions and of many gunner and other units . |
| 22 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |