Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [adv] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your second action today is to resign from other people 's committees . |
| 2 | Our first aim too is to serve the district according to the needs of our time , the first of which is to preserve knowledge of the life of the area . |
| 3 | But the first priority undoubtedly was to defeat Balliol , if possible . |
| 4 | Mm well if he finds out where you are , or even if he visits relatives and starts making threats saying he 's gon na get you or he 's er assault you , or he 's gon na hurt the child , anything like that , then er the first thing obviously is to contact the police to warn him off and secondly contact me , cos we 'll then be able to apply for an injunction to stop him coming anywhere near you . |
| 5 | He gets married next month and one of his first tasks yesterday was to inform his wife-to-be that four days after they return from their honeymoon he 'll be off for two months on a 13-game tour . |
| 6 | Non-logical stimuli : the first step here is to list as many aspects as can be thought of connected with the problem situation and to consider a completely irrelevant , unconnected object and to see how many ways that the object could affect the situation . |
| 7 | The first step therefore was to grant representation to the colonies — though the word was avoided — in the Cortes . |
| 8 | Our first task now is to continue the reforms which we have already begun . ’ |
| 9 | The first task then is to define the skills which children will need to complete a project effectively . |
| 10 | Your next action today is to set a standard that everyone in your team attends a conference at least once every six months . |
| 11 | And if not I think the next thing actually is to move the decoder or change the decoder |
| 12 | The next stage therefore was to consider how this large systemic information base could help in exploring and understanding what was happening in practice , and how to link the system activities with the functional groupings that existed in the EPH . |
| 13 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |