Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 2 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 4 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 5 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 6 | You are to keep it a secret , Theodosia . |
| 7 | One can either directly estimate the value of all the final goods and services ( a variant would be to estimate what every branch of production adds to the value of the goods it uses as raw materials ) . |
| 8 | In their view , the media should be firmly subordinated to the state and its primary function should be to encourage whatever the state defines as ‘ good ’ — whether that be national consciousness and personal self-discipline , or socialist egalitarianism , or a relentless drive towards modernization and economic development . |
| 9 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 10 | But I would not make this a necessary condition when designing a border , since to do so would be to deny oneself the pleasure of many first-rate foliage plants . |
| 11 | The honourable thing would be to give her the house . |
| 12 | To read these words as ‘ held in any other computer ’ , as the trial judge had done , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
| 13 | To read those words in that way , in our judgment , would be to give them a meaning quite different from their plain and natural meaning . |
| 14 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 15 | An initial reaction by the Highlander staff to an approach from a new community group may be to show them a video made by another similar community group about their own activities , then possibly video the reactions of the new group to what they have seen . |
| 16 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
| 17 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 18 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 19 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 20 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 21 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 22 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 23 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 24 | The first and foremost step in planning a food facility is to establish what the facility is going to sell , and what type of function is required from the service facility . |
| 25 | In The weather is fine , for example , is would normally constitute the transition ( assuming the communicative purpose of the utterance is to state what the weather is like ) . |
| 26 | So one of the ways to overcome that is to set yourself a target to do more |
| 27 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 28 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
| 29 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 30 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |