Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 2 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 3 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 4 | But if we 're to handle it this way it 's got to be fast and we need every lead you can give us . ’ |
| 5 | Roseanne , her screen sister Jackie , and Sandra are to start their own business together . |
| 6 | I wonder whether the way to proceed might not be to write our own . |
| 7 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 8 | It may be to destroy them all and there are situations where that can happen . |
| 9 | The works which are aware of this predicament Federman has called ‘ surfiction ’ whose primary purpose ‘ will be to unmask its own fictionality , to expose the metaphor of its own fraudulence ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ So I 'm to credit them all with this attempt on me , am I ? |
| 11 | One option believed to be under consideration by GEC would be to form its own partnership with British Aerospace , but MoD sources say this would be unlikely to overcome its fundamental objections to GEC 's involvement . |
| 12 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 13 | And , to my shame , I thought how much easier it would be to let them all believe it . |
| 14 | The Community 's primary task must be to extend its own advantages of democracy , stability and prosperity to eastern Europe . |
| 15 | The ideal way would be to call your own death , to fear it all through life , and then reach an age where fear disappears , when you could say , ‘ I 'm ready now . |
| 16 | In today 's troubled Goodison times how wonderful it would be to have them all playing together for Everton , with perhaps a Ray Wilson and a Tommy Wright for good measure . |
| 17 | The aim should be to develop your own potential , not to regulate your working habits to a conventional norm . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm to tell you that dinner will be at eight , ’ Wendy passed the message cheerily . |
| 19 | Outside workers , the lowest of the low , are to have their own ‘ mess room ’ over the stables , though head gardeners and grooms may use the servants ' hall . |
| 20 | The ‘ new ’ one in the tabloid seemed fairly straightforward — except that if we are to check our own stats every week — it could get quite difficult if players from lower divisions are involved … if you do nt get a sunday paper or a monday paper you are shagged basically . |
| 21 | If the EEC were to acquire its own resources , then the organisation would lose the element of control over its spending that came with the existing system of national contributions : Hallstein could then argue that giving the European Parliament more authority would provide the necessary democratic control over the Commission . |
| 22 | If software applications were to include their own specific operating systems they might well be more efficient , but they would be unwieldy , expensive to develop and could not interact with other applications or with the variety of computer hardware designs . |
| 23 | It is as if we were to carry our own sonic searchlight with us . |
| 24 | Although many were appointed to established societies and institutes some were to found their own missions — such was the case of George Annand Mackenzie , the first born-deaf man in Britain to get a M.A. degree . |
| 25 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 26 | French warships anchored in Beirut bay and French troops set up their first encampment at Khalde , where Beirut international airport now stands — and where the US Marines were to establish their own doomed military headquarters 122 years later . |
| 27 | Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment . |
| 28 | And there would certainly be no commercial benefits if Anglo-Welsh were to substitute their own products for those of Palatine . |
| 29 | Their ambitions were to own their own homes and have private pensions . |
| 30 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |