Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 2 | Mr. F.W. Dee ( Company Secretary at the Brewery and brother to found Harry Dee ) had been down to play for Henley but had to withdraw ‘ having arranged to play for Peppard ’ . |
| 3 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 5 | JERVIS : I am not to dispute with your honour , but I dare say if the men will let her alone she 'll never trouble herself about them . |
| 6 | Critics argued that the government itself had been largely to blame for the country 's economic problems . |
| 7 | And they are très nécessaire , if we women are not to die like this . ’ |
| 8 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
| 9 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 10 | These suggestions are not to do with changing your personality , they are concerned with your behaviour . |
| 11 | Fashion is represented by photographs by Bruce Weber which are not to do with selling clothes but with creating a style — which is , in other pictures , harnessed to fashion . |
| 12 | They are not to do with whether we 're Catholic or Protestant , they 're more to do with whether we 're open or closed sort of people , whether we are willing to risk new ideas and the challenge of our old ones , or whether we want to scuttle away into our little corners and keep what we 've got . |
| 13 | ‘ Harry you are not to go near that cottage not even of going near it — and I can read your thoughts by now . |
| 14 | The psychologist and the healer must be under rigorous discipline if they are not to fall into this trap . |
| 15 | You are not to fall for him , and that 's an order ! ’ |
| 16 | There wo n't be any after tomorrow , but if there is they are not to respond to it . |
| 17 | The patient and carer need clear guidelines on how to cope with acute exacerbations if they are not to panic in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | The NFU is pressing the government to pay compensation to the men , who say they are not to blame for their predicament . |
| 19 | I am sure you are not to blame for the iniquitous nature of this wretched will . ’ |
| 20 | Those Conservative Members and the electorate know that we are not to blame for the mess that we are in . |
| 21 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |
| 22 | Also , you will need to be particularly careful with your diet if you are not to suffer from fatigue . |
| 23 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 24 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |
| 25 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 26 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 27 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 28 | To eliminate these defects we must remove the reference to inference and tighten up the relation specified between the false beliefs and the true justified ones which are not to count as knowledge . |
| 29 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 30 | In the Scottish tradition , following upon our Scottish theologian Dun Scottas although not representing him properly , it says that righteousness and moral items are just to do with the will of God . |