Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 2 | So is n't the only way you could do it would be to issue it secretly to cadres you would then expect the cadres to take this up and promote it but you have n't actually broken the conditions in the United Front . |
| 3 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 4 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 5 | ‘ The only way to know whether we are doing any good would be to take us away for a year ! |
| 6 | In passing , I might say how extraordinarily lucky I am to have them here with me . |
| 7 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 8 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 9 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 10 | My way with memory is to entrust it only with things it will take some pride in looking after . |
| 11 | Sections 6 and 7 of the UCTA override these provisions , and , in effect , provide for mandatory inclusion of such warranties in the contracts covered by these sections , since the easiest way to exclude liability for breach of such warranties is to exclude them altogether from the terms of the contract . |
| 12 | The relevant ages of consent in English law vary : 16 seems to be the general age , but the offence of gross indecency with or towards children only applies where the child is under 14 , and the age of consent for homosexual offences is 21 and the recommendation is to lower it only to 18 . |
| 13 | Herbs and other cottage garden plants are back in fashion and what a novel way this is to grow them attractively in a limited area . |
| 14 | If noise is where language ceases , then to describe it is to imprison it again with adjectives . |
| 15 | The Board 's activities have been concentrated into three growth areas — around Fort William , Inverness and Caithness , where almost one-half of the labour force of the region live — and the aim is to strengthen them further as both industrial and service centres . |
| 16 | The last kind of strategy for denying responsibility is to give it away to someone else . |
| 17 | Another is to ease her gently into the awareness that your visit will be shorter than usual , doing so some time after you have greeted her affectionately on your arrival and listened patiently to her news , views or troubles . |
| 18 | The way to deal with the international support system at the moment is to reduce it right across the board — for all support systems to be reduced at a speed which farmers can bear and which bears on different types of farmers equally , both within the Community and as between the Community and our competitors in the United States . |
| 19 | The most obvious way is to keep them indoors at times of sexual activity . |
| 20 | By not knowing and by feeding these fears , you have played into the hands of the mentor whose dedication is to keep you away at all costs from your higher self and who will feed off your essence and life energy , as without these it can not live . |
| 21 | Many of the matters discussed appear in the Companies Act under the heading ‘ Management and Administration , ’ and the orthodox textbook arrangement is to consider them merely as aspects of the company 's internal machinery . |
| 22 | To think of the super Thou and link it with emotional thoughts such as compassion is to bind us together with invisible but powerful bands . |
| 23 | The way to get the maximum flavour out of dried apricots is to bake them slowly in the oven instead of stewing them . |
| 24 | The local mum said the most effective way to teach Laura is to take her away from whatever she is doing wrong and keep saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 25 | One method , which by-passes the problems of tape-to-tape synchronisation , is to speak it direct to a microphone which records it straight onto the video tape via the mixer during a non-stop transfer . |
| 26 | The problem is to achieve them together in such a way that the ‘ fusion product ’ , the multiple of all three quantities , exceeds a certain critical value . |
| 27 | What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely . |
| 28 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 29 | I was to get his job — and now I was to drive him home to Bristol . |
| 30 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |