Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 2 | Correctly balanced shoulder development should be aimed for if you are to avoid spoiling the whole physique . |
| 3 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 4 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 5 | For those who could not laugh , the best remedy might be to try to erase the whole subject from their minds . |
| 6 | But as with physical wounds , it can sometimes run into complications caused by careless handling or the existence of unfavourable external or internal conditions which may delay recovery ; so the main concern of those caring for the bereaved should be to try to create the best possible conditions in which healing can take place , in which they feel loved and safe , and are permitted to take their time to absorb the fact of their loss and come to terms with it . |
| 7 | The first adjustment I would make would be to try positioning the three to six No. 6 shot at one inch gaps , starting ten inches from the hook as in diagram A. |
| 8 | There appeared to be general consensus that the new Bank 's capital should amount to 10,000 million European currency units ( ECU ) and that its objective should be to help reinforce the competitive and private sector ( without necessarily excluding the public sector , which the United Kingdom government had advocated ) . |
| 9 | One purpose of making these claims might be to attempt to establish a new legal norm , that is , that a claim at present based upon a need will become one of right . |
| 10 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 11 | Incidentally , I knocked down the girders that were to go to develop a new pit which would come from Monktonhall into those reserves . |
| 12 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 13 | If you were to try to see a top specimen of every breed at Crufts you would have to attend on all four days and walk a good couple of miles ! |
| 14 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 15 | They turned nomadic and mingled with the nomads of the Sudan , where they were to consider building a further house and perhaps settling down . |
| 16 | After this date the leading elements of the landowning class and the bourgeoisie were to merge to form a new ruling class , based firmly on Britain 's international primacy in trade and manufacture . |
| 17 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 18 | The reason for this in turn is quite straightforward : in any language which makes a distinction between nouns and adjectives , it will be natural to use an adjective when assignment of a property is required ; it may sometimes be quite easy to find an adjective and a noun which express near enough — or even exactly — the same properties , and differ only in that one is an adjective and the other is a noun , but to use the latter for assignment is to risk conveying the unwanted imputation of " entity-hood " on top of the semantic value required ( see Section 1.10 ) ; therefore when a noun or noun phrase is chosen it will normally presuppose that the construction is not that of assignment of a property but instead one of equation . |
| 19 | An alternative is to search using the logarithmic technique . |
| 20 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 21 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 22 | The best practice is to try steering a controlled wiggly course using your weight . |
| 23 | For backpacking the best way is to try to get the densest , heaviest items like tent and food close to your shoulders and therefore closest to your own centre of gravity . |
| 24 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 25 | It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears . |
| 26 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 27 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 28 | Part of the art is to avoid creating a permanent conflict with a section of the community . |
| 29 | Not as bad as some vintage types admittedly , but , even so , ‘ weaving ’ the nose is definitely a Good Idea if one is to avoid committing the unpardonable offence of Bumping Into Something . |
| 30 | But the truth is that floundering helplessly between two markets — too old-hat to be teeny-bopper and too twee to be taken seriously — Kylie needs a drastic career re-think if she is to avoid becoming a latter-day Lena Zavaroni . |