Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 That something may well be to do with these choices .
2 Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives .
3 To participate in Family Fast Day is to participate in these programmes , and many others like them , whose goal is to ‘ share the work of renewing the earth ’ .
4 Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions
5 Now what I 'd like you to do is to look at these numbers this is a bit like erm have you seen Countdown ?
6 It is to focus on these tendencies through the embeddedness of economic action .
7 I am grateful to the Minister for at least informing us that £500,000 of public money has been invested in Stagecoach in order , presumably , to help establish the level playing field which we are told is to exist in these sell-offs .
8 The problem for the enquirer is to get behind these rationalizations to find out what experiences and interpretations of these are being repressed in order to make hypotheses about the ‘ felt ’ nature of the political relatedness between workers and management within a particular enterprise .
9 Studies in first language ( see Peters 1983 ) and second language acquisition ( see Gleason 1982 ; Vihman 1982 ) suggest that the way learners proceed is to begin with these units as lexical complexes associated with certain contexts and then pick them apart analytically as the need arises .
10 But the trick was to think of these properties as mappable ; that is , capable of being thought of as dimensions in space .
  Next page