Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Y'know , I mean you 're here to do speech therapy . |
| 2 | Duties are mainly to attend QT day , organise notices and write up the notes ; she also represents all the teachers on the Executive , Training and Membership Committees . |
| 3 | They 'll be there to see airc raft from around the world at one of the summer 's biggest airshows . |
| 4 | It was more than Phil could bear to think that he would never again be there to make Christmas sparkle for her . |
| 5 | 3 of the youngest journalists around are here to have Telegraph editor Max Hastings cast a critical eye over their school paper ; the Ann Cam Citizen . |
| 6 | His aim was clear : ‘ I am here to get Leeds City into the First Division . |
| 7 | Yet the cumulative effect of the revolution of 1905 , mounting social tension and the clamour of public criticism had been precisely to undermine government confidence and authority . |
| 8 | We talk about scaleability if we are indeed to entice mainframe style applications towards the open systems platforms then we need to behilosophy as a truly worldwide supplier of accounting software is th software components with a low entry cost . |
| 9 | Loose coupling relations are there to make quality assurance inspections practicable . |
| 10 | So I hope , in my remarks , and I hope in the general tone of the debate , there 's enough to reassure London Region that we need to move forward at a careful pace . |
| 11 | A campaign costing five hundred million pounds over three years is underway to combat credit card fraud which cost companies more than a hundred and sixty-five million pounds last year . |
| 12 | The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is here to gain background information on local government in the UK as part of its 42nd parliamentary seminar programme . |
| 13 | The income which in fact is the income of B is to be treated for income tax purposes as the income of A. The purpose is notionally to transfer B's income to A , so that A may be charged to tax on the aggregate of his own and B's income . |
| 14 | De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " . |
| 15 | These intermedii with their mixture of styles and resources , differing from earlier sixteenth-century dramatic or festive ones only in their lavishness , were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera , which just because of that mixture was gradually to supplant church music as the very heart of European music and hence establish Italian pre-eminence throughout the continent . |
| 16 | US Southern Command officials said in mid-January that the aim was gradually to reduce US troop strength in Panama to its pre-invasion level of about 13,000 . |
| 17 | Robert Southey ( 1774–1843 ) who was later to become poet laureate , discovered the medieval Chronica del Cid during his childhood in Spain , and later made a translation which became something of a best-seller in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Bulgaria was also to get UN assistance , and other countries including Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka were expected to apply [ see below for position of Turkey ] . |
| 19 | Bobby Robson was there to assess World Cup candidates , but nothing positive emerged from 90 minutes of scuffling that made one almost yearn for the more measured boredom of Rangers ' European Cup exit in Munich three days earlier . |
| 20 | Lance Percival was there to hear Ken look at Miss Sims as she arrived on that boundary between the action and the production . |