Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |
| 2 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 3 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
| 4 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 5 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 6 | I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them . |
| 7 | We are not to argue that ‘ I ’ refers to an intangible , invisible , inaudible Cartesian spiritual substance . |
| 8 | ‘ Now if anything be certain it is this , that where there are general words in a later Act capable of reasonable and sensible application without extending them to subjects specifically dealt with by earlier legislation , you are not to hold that earlier and special legislation indirectly repealed , altered , or derogated from merely by force of such general words , without any indication of a particular intention to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ Servants are not to go where their masters frequent . ’ |
| 10 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 11 | ‘ And you 're not to move until I tell you . ’ |
| 12 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 13 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 14 | You 're out to shock and the more you astound and astonish people the happier you 'll be . |
| 15 | Again we 're back to price and things of that nature . |
| 16 | And we 're here to try and , alright if , if seven out of the ten that we look up tonight come through , we 've done well . |
| 17 | We 're here to ensure that punishment is carried out . ’ |
| 18 | They 've always come out , but they always do then check while they 're there to see whether the property concerned is on the list of private , adopted or unadopted and there can be a mixture . |
| 19 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 20 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 21 | But if they are really to grow and prosper , they need access to private capital , freed from the constraints of public ownership . |
| 22 | Antony says hypocritically that he does n't want to cause a riot , which is just what he does do , and he leaves the plebeians in a destructive state of min , who are out to kill and destroy everything . |
| 23 | In fact they are out to prove that their problem is insoluble and that you could n't help them . |
| 24 | Sam and Eric are captured by Jack and the whole thing turns out like a very gruesome game of Cowboys and Indians where Jack and his gang are painted like Indians losing their identity and are out to capture and kill Ralph . |
| 25 | According to Lacan , the aim of psychoanalysis should be rigorously to deconstruct and expose the contradictions and radical fissues in which human subjectivity is born . |
| 26 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 27 | Yes very , you know , so I mean I 'm not to know that he 'd not already told somebody else . |
| 28 | The more one can do , the more careful one has to be not to go and do it . |
| 29 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 30 | A preview will tell you what the software can do at the moment — we do n't go too heavily on any minor bugs or inconsistencies at the preview stage , but we do criticise bad design and form an opinion about whether the software will be up to scratch when it gets released . |