Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 2 | If I am right then to say ‘ The chicken is distressed by its close confinement , is a dual acknowledgement of sympathy at the presence of behavioural prototypes similar to those of distressed people , and a strong veterinary hint of a possible cure ; but no more . |
| 3 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 4 | They are all right to travel through . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been enough simply to hear his stories . |
| 6 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 7 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Welcome , we are so please to see you . ’ |
| 9 | Britain 's cloudy skies are only partly to blame for this poor performance . |
| 10 | ‘ The figures are only here to prove one thing . |
| 11 | The star systems , right or wrong , are only there to provide the right atmosphere ; to set the mood ; to spark off communion with the spirit or energy force . |
| 12 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 13 | Cash-and-carry outlets usually deal in groceries , and many are open only to trade customers . |
| 14 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am not here to lose , ’ he said , never far from the negative response . |
| 18 | And I am not here to lose you readers . ’ |
| 19 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 20 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not here to make myself known to the police . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not here to become involved in a controversy , ’ he said . |
| 23 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 24 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 25 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 26 | And plans are already underway to build a purporse built campus before the end of the decade . |
| 27 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 28 | ‘ There is a great public demand for information on food and nutrition — and we are not here to sell a particular line , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Congress , I know I 'm speaking to the team , but it 's up to us and the activists who are not here to motivate our members and get this campaign off the ground and by supporting this motion , we will be putting the first foot on the ladder to defeating the government 's pay policy . |
| 30 | ‘ We are not here to sort out the world 's problems ! ’ |