Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of pounds which should be spent on health , education and investment will be diverted merely to restore what had existed until the IRA struck . |
| 2 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 3 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 4 | I think it will be clear that the narrower the space unc the more stringent the cancellation requirement outside it , and in consequence a greater number of different waves will have to be added together to achieve it . |
| 5 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 6 | I would be obliged therefore to receive your confirmation that Warriston 's Close would be available for this purpose as a matter of urgency . |
| 7 | They would be meeting today to consider them . |
| 8 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 9 | He would be looking just to replace his salary , whereas to the employer , the loss to the employer would be considerably , would be considerably more , could n't it . |
| 10 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 11 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 12 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 13 | A little fold of the veil can be drawn aside to disclose his mood at that time . |
| 14 | It contains acetic acid ( vinegar ) and should be used overnight to allow its gentle action to work , using a toilet brush in the morning before flushing . |
| 15 | It can be used defensively to convince ourselves we do not need to take their ideas , understandings and values seriously , and to reinforce our own superior knowledge . |
| 16 | Checking procedure can be used tactically to support your purpose . |
| 17 | Its grotesque outline keeps popping into view unexpectedly wherever one walks or drives around Lochinver , appearing as a giant thimble and always seeming to be peering inquisitively to see what is happening . |
| 18 | No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom . |
| 19 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 20 | Someone will be waiting there to meet you . ’ |
| 21 | He should be brushed daily to prevent his coat becoming badly knotted again . |
| 22 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 23 | He will be doing well to get anything at all . |
| 24 | Would I be right in thinking that there really are people with ‘ green fingers ’ and should we be doing more to encourage our younger generation to take an active interest in the garden ? |
| 25 | However , they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed . |
| 26 | I had no idea that you 'd be coming here to spin your little web . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , Joan would not be coming here to admire your regalia ! ’ |
| 28 | The latter does not like what he sees : ‘ ‘ Young men ought to be brought here to give them a horror of debauchery' ’ exclaimed the worthy man , bursting with disgust . ’ |
| 29 | I hoped they 'd be distracted enough to ignore our getaway attempt . |
| 30 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |