Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
| 2 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 3 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 4 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 5 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 6 | Some believed indeed that the original intention of Soviet Mediterranean deployments had been to induce a negotiated withdrawal of the United States ' Sixth Fleet . |
| 7 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 8 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 9 | You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment . |
| 10 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 11 | If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting , think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending . |
| 12 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 13 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 14 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 15 | But if we are to relate the romantic picture of historical generalization to the hard facts of life as it was lived , we need examples , great and small , of cities at work . |
| 16 | Now that we have learnt to take account of the unpaid domestic labour of younger women as positive inputs into the economy ( Piachaud , 1985 ; Joshi , 1987a ) , it is time to extend this approach to the variety of unpaid activities of older people if we are to obtain an accurate picture of their role in the economy and of the extent to which they are a net ‘ burden ’ upon it . |
| 17 | But they have the grave disadvantage that they must spend almost all their waking hours eating it if they are to obtain an adequate diet . |
| 18 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 19 | I suggest , General , that if we are to secure a good working relationship , such remarks could be kept to a minimum ? ’ |
| 20 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 21 | French government officials are to launch a judicial investigation . |
| 22 | Thus the Cultural Industries , if they are to establish a stable market , are forced to create a relationship with an audience or public to whom they offer not a simple cultural good , but a cultural repertoire across which risks can be spread . |
| 23 | Neste Chemicals and Bharita , India , are to establish a joint venture company in Indian to produce polyethylene compounds to be used in the manufacture of power cables . |
| 24 | The announcement recently that Wimpey Laboratories and G-C Engineers and Consultants are to establish a joint venture company to deal with nuclear waste indicates that private industry sees a role for itself . |
| 25 | Two proposals led by my family health services authority are to establish a new pattern of audiological services in primary care for elderly patients operating from general practice rather than ear , nose , and throat departments , and to reach a consensus on the range of conditions that can be cost effectively , appropriately , and equitably treated in general practice by physiotherapists . |
| 26 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 27 | They are likely to need very careful handling if their substitute parents are to establish a happy relationship with them . |
| 28 | The primary aims are to establish an analytical framework in which the effects of ownership changes on corporate behaviour and performance can be modelled ; to compare what has actually happened to the organisation of nationalised and denationalised firms in France and Britain : and to devise appropriate tools and data sets for later empirical and econometric investigation . |
| 29 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |