Example sentences of "[adv] be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of that research has , in turn , been inspired by an attempt , especially among American psychologists , to understand and predict ‘ giftedness ’ : as such , in seeking reasons for differences in creativity , their preference has naturally been to look for evidence of the latter 's association with excellence , superiority , and health rather than with maladjustment or psychological deviance . |
| 2 | But I mean that would just be an argument about where they set the level that you no longer were to qualify for child benefit , but I mean , bu , you know , presuma , presumably er , th the point the man was was making that er , the child benefit goes equally |
| 3 | What he 'd like best is to stay in bed on Father 's Day . |
| 4 | The only way to design tastefully was to start from scratch , he had said . |
| 5 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 6 | My ambition now is to move into film and music with Hysteria — which promises to be as big a success as Zabat — centred as it is on the passionate potential of Blackwomen 's Creativity ! ’ |
| 7 | And all he could do now was to turn in horror as that bellowing , roaring shape lunged with an encrusted claw through the metal stair-rails , which bent and squealed . |
| 8 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 9 | The only thing I 've time to do today is to run into Registry and look up Dr Serafin . |
| 10 | My aim today is to look at government policy on employment and training , and point up some of the issues as they affect people with disabilities . |
| 11 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 12 | You 're still afraid of any attack on your divine male right to know everything there is to know about sex . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You might be a brilliant designer , Nathan , and I 'm sure you know everything there is to know about sailing . |
| 14 | She was the infinitely alluring , forever mysterious older woman who knew everything there was to know about love , sex , and romantic liaisons . |
| 15 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 16 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 17 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 18 | But it may be that the way forward is to look at secondment ( from the Dublin office has been seconded to Sri Lanka for several months . |