Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down in the dungeon of the first division , Rosslyn Park and Nottingham are still to get off the mark . |
| 2 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 3 | I think David thought he was the artist and he knew what he wanted to do — which I think is actually true — the artist basically does know what he wants to do — but I think the manager should just be there to sort out the finance and try to keep you on a the straight and narrow . |
| 4 | Whether you 're looking for bowls of bulbs to brighten the home or the best miniatures for a rock garden , now 's the time to start work and Daphne Ledward and Anne Swithinbank are here to pass on a host of colourful ideas . |
| 5 | We are there to attend not a play but a performance . |
| 6 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 7 | What plans are there to tighten up the foster service vetting which , in this case , allowed a known homosexual to adopt a child ? |
| 8 | There are three battlefields to yomp through and , rest assured , plenty of the Generals minions are there to roll out the red carpet for Cap and the major ( at least the blood stains wo n't show ! ) . |
| 9 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 10 | The objectives of the policy are firstly to set out the attitude of the Wedgwood Group and , to elaborate on methods of dealing with alcohol problems in the workplace . |
| 11 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 12 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 13 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 14 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 15 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 16 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 17 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 18 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 19 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 20 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 21 | Your best chance for successful badger-watching is carefully to stake out a sett before dusk . |
| 22 | Our intention in this section is simply to set out the main ideas of monetarism and to compare briefly monetarist policy recommendations with those of Keynesian economists . |
| 23 | If I regurgitate this , it is simply to put down a vote of censure from this column on ministers , particularly Douglas Hogg of the Foreign Office , who did nothing to prepare for the eventuality of oil slicks . |
| 24 | The trick is simply to add up the numbers . |
| 25 | Another method is simply to switch off the tail compensation system and some radios are fitted with an easily accessible switch for this purpose . |
| 26 | As a consequence , the sequence of development of a contract on an options exchange is initially to offer just a call option on the underlying , and when that is established to supplement it with a put contract . |
| 27 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 28 | The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms . |
| 29 | His manners to her had always been impeccable , which made what he was shortly to do all the more shocking . |
| 30 | Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance . |