Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] a [noun] " 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 | You are to keep it a secret , Theodosia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 11 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So one of the ways to overcome that is to set yourself a target to do more |
| 14 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | To encourage the basically extrovert person to develop his praying in a way more suited to the introvert is to do him a disservice , and since many books on prayer are written by introverts we can quickly fall into this trap . |
| 18 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 19 | I think the best thing for me to do now is to give you a day by day account of what has happened since we have been here . |
| 20 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |
| 21 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 22 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
| 23 | All you have to do is to mail us a postcard with your name and address written on it together with your answer to the following simple question : |
| 24 | Folklore insists that the best way to lure a usually male journalist to a gig is to offer him a drink . |
| 25 | Mobile minister the Rev Bill Harper , who is to conduct a special service for Maude , is to take her a letter from the Queen Mother and a signed photograph from Dr George Carey . |
| 26 | An easy way to remember how to do this is to ask yourself a question ‘ who or what did the action ? ’ and place the answer before the verb . |
| 27 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 28 | Reaction of most people is to say What a lot of money , we do n't get anywhere near that . |
| 29 | A starting point is to examine what a liberal-democracy is . |
| 30 | That 's to make me a cup of tea . |