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 also to have no happiness ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 5 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 6 | At least if it goes wrong with just one A&R person out front , there are plenty more to approach . |
| 7 | The great question I was always asked was , ‘ Are you here to do art with the patients ? |
| 8 | Or are you here to make some pretty excuse that will enable you to see him ? |
| 9 | Are you here to bless us ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That 's been something hard to achieve with A-levels and GCSEs getting in the way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ And are we now to welcome Ellie into the fold ? |
| 17 | How , then , are we now to see the Webbs ' appraisal of Owen ? |
| 18 | Are we really to believe , as John Prescott seems to imply , that our government ( and Major in particular ) does n't care about the nation 's health or education or social welfare ? |
| 19 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 20 | There seemed to be nothing else to say . |
| 21 | There seemed to be nothing now to hang the rest of her life on , and Alain had a very disturbing effect on her . |
| 22 | There always seemed to be someone else to hand over to . |
| 23 | He had no key to the house ; he had asked his mother for one , but she had said it was n't necessary — there would always be someone there to let him in . |
| 24 | If you had a predominance of company workers where everybody run around following the rules well there 'd be nobody else to do anything else . |
| 25 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 26 | You do n't have to have an abortion , there should n't be one there to have an abortion for should there . |
| 27 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 28 | Sometimes when a person comes home from work and there does n't seem to be anyone there to greet them , they will call out like the horse in the paddock . |
| 29 | There did n't seem to be anything else to do . |
| 30 | ‘ Are they here to buy ? ’ |