Example sentences of "be [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporting names from past and present say there 's been no-one else to match the magic of Stan . |
| 2 | And why , thought Adam , sleepless and sore in his damp cloak under the trees , why am I here to fret at it still ? |
| 3 | Am I not to think aloud in your presence ? |
| 4 | ‘ Am I also to have no happiness ? ’ |
| 5 | Before you can take a bearing at all there 's something you have to do , which is what , what am I about to do ? |
| 6 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 7 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 8 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 9 | At least if it goes wrong with just one A&R person out front , there are plenty more to approach . |
| 10 | The great question I was always asked was , ‘ Are you here to do art with the patients ? |
| 11 | Or are you here to make some pretty excuse that will enable you to see him ? |
| 12 | Are you here to bless us ? ’ |
| 13 | Are you out to win ? |
| 14 | Are you about to retire or something ? |
| 15 | ‘ Are you about to forget all your fine words and simply take what you want ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Are you about to panic ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 17 | Are you about to hand over a signed confession , then ? ’ |
| 18 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 19 | That 's been something hard to achieve with A-levels and GCSEs getting in the way . |
| 20 | ‘ Are we not to help the survivors ? ’ asked Miss Logan in perplexity . |
| 21 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 22 | Are we then to assume that the Zande and other people with similar beliefs in occult power are virtually schizophrenics , with their minds split between two irreconcilable ways of comprehending the world ? |
| 23 | Are we then to add only that what is physical must also be observable , that it must possess some secondary quality — colour , hardness or solidity , texture , smell , taste To do so would exclude many very small particles whose existence is well established in physics , and also physical forces , such as magnetism . |
| 24 | What are we then to make of the 41% of LAWER that took place without discussion or the patient 's previous wishes being made known ? |
| 25 | So are we about to see a kinder , gentler Dolph ? |
| 26 | The question remains : is the hard hit property market in the US forcing Taubman to liquidate some cash in the normal course of business or are we about to see greater shifts in York Avenue and Bond Street ? |
| 27 | Are we about to witness that again ? |
| 28 | Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ? |
| 29 | Are we about to hear an Opposition spokesman telling us their tax plans ? |
| 30 | Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ? |