Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 2 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 3 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 4 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 5 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |
| 6 | Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 8 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
| 9 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 10 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 11 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 12 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 13 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 14 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 17 | The salesperson 's task is to provide it in a manner which does not antagonise the buyer and , yet , is convincing . |
| 18 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 19 | My hon. Friend knows that our policy on interest rates is to set them in a way that is compatible with our commitment to the pound 's band within the exchange rate mechanism and to bear down on inflation . |
| 20 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |
| 21 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 22 | The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer . |
| 23 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 24 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 25 | If you buy green bananas a handy tip for speeding up their ripening is to put them in a bag together with some apples or kiwi fruit . |
| 26 | Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them . |
| 27 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 28 | We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases |
| 29 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Cos you know one of the people says that the best place for it is to lob it in the arboretum lake . |