Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The tent is warm , and I have taken everything off , even though it has been the norm to sleep in our thermals and a pile fibre hood .
2 Perhaps the most positive outcome , on a personal basis , has been the opportunity to participate in discussion and share ideas on an area of my work which I have not previously discussed in depth .
3 Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers .
4 Apparently , it has never been the practice to submit to justices a proposed draft order reflecting the terms that have been agreed between the parties .
5 I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather .
6 Another factor had been the effort to help with the Museum project .
7 IT had been the intention to suffer in silence for the rest of the season while the mighty Quakers continued to plummet towards the familiar , comfy surroundings of Division Four .
8 New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial .
9 Finally , there are the questions to do with the assessment of the course , including any examinations .
10 Shots of the product in use or in an unusual setting are the type to aim for in this area .
11 It is the aptly-named ‘ promoters ’ who are the ones to blame in the history of boxing .
12 Systems which employ two pushrods to the swashplate ( one in front and one behind ) are the ones to look for .
13 ‘ Deputies in Scotland are the tier to recruit from , so presumably that says something about what they did n't want , ’ said one rejected applicant .
14 Other nice touches are the ability to switch between English , French , Italian or Spanish prompts , and Amstrad 's intention to put the machine 's software up under Windows to simplify data transfer between PDA and desktop machine .
15 Are the Government to continue with the same policy or enact a U-turn at the last moment ?
16 Compared to the Strats , how easy are the Gretsches to look after ?
17 Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today .
18 Cameroun and South Korea are the teams to avoid from the fourth pool .
19 Cameroun and South Korea are the teams to avoid from the fourth pool .
20 March , April and May are the periods to watch for the sudden and the unexpected , although virtually every month contains a potential departure or arrival point , an ending or a beginning .
21 The idea of the organism ; the notion that organisms need to process energy to stay intact ; the appreciation that selection is constantly at work , favouring the best adapted — these are the fundamentals to keep in mind in all studies of ecology .
22 If you 're confused by the latest hi-tech advances in stereo TV or Satellite Television these are the people to cut through all the irritating jargon .
23 The solution to another point raised by ( ’ Where are the people to come from to fill what will be the lonely , and apart from particularly large companies , unexciting role of internal auditor ?
24 Blushes and risk are the ways to deal with directors ' pay
25 Okay , so , that 's , they 're the reasons to account for the rise in absolute values of er , trade in all commodities , what about erm , why has the er , trade in manufactures er , increased as a proportion of total trade ?
26 They 're a lot to deal with .
27 And a lot of imagination and they 're a pain to work with .
28 And the reason that they 're a pain to work with , is because they can be impractical and not very good at communicating with other people .
29 ‘ You 're a joy to work with , ’ she tells him .
30 From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition .
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