Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 2 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 3 | Right you 're to match it with a bear . |
| 4 | ‘ You are to confine yourself to a mosque until after the Moulid . |
| 5 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 6 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 7 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 8 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 9 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 10 | Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary . |
| 11 | In most literary essays your central concern will be to say something about a text ; and most of what you need will be there , in the text itself . |
| 12 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 13 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |
| 14 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 15 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 16 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 17 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 18 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 20 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 21 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 22 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 23 | To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority . |
| 24 | If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain . |
| 25 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 26 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 27 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 28 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 29 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 30 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |