Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate . |
| 2 | Our European priorities now should be to campaign for the sort of policies and changes we would like to see in nineteen ninety six and seek the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 3 | It must be to do with the power of the Worm . |
| 4 | When considering how high to go , the limiting factor must be to keep within the realistic expectations of the buyer , otherwise he may not be willing to talk to the seller in the first place . |
| 5 | Since eventually the speaker must produce one or other of these approximately interchangeable sentences , the next procedure must be to operate upon the functional-level representation in such a way as to decide upon the details of the specific sentence that is to be produced — to commit oneself , for example , to a passive or an active sentence . |
| 6 | ‘ But we ca n't get carried away by one result because our main aim must be to stay in the Premier League . |
| 7 | and the first job for the new manager could be to decide on the future of two of United 's stars … |
| 8 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 9 | It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) . |
| 10 | For much of the Bloc , then , the solution may be to opt for the devil they know . |
| 11 | BLUNDERING birdwatchers may be to blame for the failure of England 's only breeding pair of Golden Eagles to produce chicks for the first time in four years . |
| 12 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 13 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 14 | Our next stop comprises a pair of gems that would be world famous were they more amenably located , but that would be to detract from the peerless setting in which both Aldeburgh and Thorpeness golf clubs find themselves . |
| 15 | However , few predict that the government will raise direct taxation : that would be to renege on the fundamental Thatcherite principle of reducing income tax . |
| 16 | We are campaigning through magazines asking people to write to their MPs about off-road cycling facilities and one way they could show their support , or give a sign of their intent , would be to push through the Pennine Bridleway . |
| 17 | It would probably be necessary meantime to adopt a tougher line with the rightists : ‘ The only safe alternative would be to arrange with the Soviet Union for mutual withdrawal of troops and let nature take its course which will eventually mean another Soviet satellite state in Korea . ’ |
| 18 | It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . |
| 19 | In 1920 , considering ‘ the impotence of contemporary drama ’ , he had concluded that ‘ The natural evolution , for us , would be to proceed in the direction indicated by Browning ; to distil the dramatic essences , if we can , and infuse them into some other liquor . ’ |
| 20 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 21 | To infer the existence of such a duty from the mere possibility that the mother was with child when she was received as a passenger by the defendants would be to act without the sanction of any judicial decision or , in my opinion , of any legal principle . |
| 22 | Nottingham believed that once Nonconformists realised how easy it would be to conform to the established Church , few would wish to suffer the inconveniences that Dissent still brought with it , so that the integrity of the Anglican Church would be preserved , without running the risk of a perpetual Protestant schism . |
| 23 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 24 | On taking office in August 1974 , Ford declared that his first priority would be to deal with the ailing American economy . |
| 25 | Far more effective , he considered ( and there was no anti-Semitism involved , though inevitably most of the recent refugees were Jews ) , would be to put on the air people who , while speaking intelligible German , would be identified as representative British people . |
| 26 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 27 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 28 | and one of the key ways of stopping people killing themselves would be to change from the old antidepressants onto the more modern safer ones which A are easier to take , less likely to make you kill yourself , and er |
| 29 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 30 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |