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Example sentences of "be [art] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1	He or she may choose to accept the load of small and troublesome issues and there may be no one else to take over certain tasks .
2	The next election will see a wave of Tory propaganda hit the province and , unless things change , there will be no one there to challenge it .
3	One day you will wake up ( it may be a nice sunny Sunday morning ) and you will luxuriate in the fact that you can do anything that you want to do — anything that takes your fancy — and there is no one else to consider .
4	Either there is no one else to step in , or doctors and social workers — themselves at their wits ' end to find facilities — conspire to bring it about by assuming that such care will be given , for example when a patient is discharged from hospital following a stroke .
5	He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise .
6	The danger arises if you happen to arrive at what was for you a distressing time and there is no one there to help you deal with it in the way I shall describe in Chapter 2 .
7	There 's no one else to blame . ’
8	I have to go over to hand in my register now there 's no one here to take charge of it . ’
9	‘ I 've a problem , and there 's no one here to give me a hand .
10	Go and push a few notes on your own piano ; there 's no one here to wince at the sound you make these days .
11	‘ Because those wretched Japanese are all demanding breakfast and we do n't normally open the restaurant until ten-thirty for morning coffee so there 's no one there to cook it !
12	And the first night I arrived there , there was no one even to greet me .
13	If he neglected his physical body , there was no one here to reprimand him , for the whole community was woefully neglected .
14	He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’
15	Now Bill Sweet was dead , there was no one else to put on the pressure .
16	‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’
17	She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it .
18	For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it .
19	There was no one else to do so .
20	‘ If it 's not unethical — and there was no one else to do it , anyway — why have Celia and your grandmother kept it secret all these years ?
21	‘ It does feel like that , ’ said Scarlet , wondering what she 'd do without Constance , since there was no one else to talk to .
22	There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’
23	We climbed into the back , already full of people perched atop a deep pile of cargo , and squeezed into a rear corner , hoping there was no one else to come .
24	In the same way , Celie too was all alone , she had no one to turn to but God as there was no one else to pay attention to her .
25	Megan must have been there , Mrs Files 's senile aunt whom she brought to work when there was no one else to look after her .
26	And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ .
27	My mother was dead , and there was no one there to meet me .
28	( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources .