Example sentences of "be [to-vb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing to bring it all out , would be to write in my own African language , but I have to write in another language . |
| 2 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 3 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 4 | What he does is to disbelieve in his previous world view because of needs which his previous world view can no longer answer . |
| 5 | An interesting additional observation was to find in my front-room data nonce nonsense formations , such as thingummycallit , and several idiosyncratic items , such as gobsocket and jiminycricket . |
| 6 | Though this was perhaps not unique among artists of her generation , whose careers were interrupted by war service , very few chose to rechannel their talents in the service of new music as she was to do in her close association with Benjamin Britten as a founder artist of the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival . |
| 7 | She could not understand why Alain had insisted that she be here , unless of course it was to instil in her this very attitude that she was not in any way entitled to a share of their past . |