Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you then sow the seeds in rows , or in patches , or in " stations " — groups spaced several cm ( in ) apart — is up to you ; in any case , some herbs do better sown in boxes or a seedbed , and then transplanted ; others are better sown where they are to grow and then thinned . |
| 2 | The aspiration of art can not be to serve and thereby reaffirm the status quo by delivering products which give people what they want and supposedly need . |
| 3 | As will be seen , the Newbolt Report attempts to construct a similar status for English : as " art " it will be said to transcend narrow state or class interests ; while , as " education " its function will be to refuse and actively combat the influence of majority cultures rather than be democratically responsible to them . |
| 4 | Of the Irish contingent , The Committee on recent form stands out but if Cahervillahow were to recapture if only fleetingly the form of two years ago you need look no further for the winner . |
| 5 | If anyone were to suggest that ultra high level languages could produce the requisite speeds , it would be easy to test their claim by requesting a demonstration of a recruitment system with integrated letter writing putting on a hundred applications in an hour , and updating them in an average of 7½ seconds each . |
| 6 | The filter has two functions , the main one being to polish and biologically filter the water . |
| 7 | In Mark , they were to fail as well ( Mark 16:8 ) . |
| 8 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 9 | Jeanne and the baby were to follow as soon as a wet-nurse could be found near the capital . |
| 10 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 11 | The aim is to target and then monitor reform-minded governments — Ecuador might be the first — and create ‘ islands of integrity ’ : countries whose officials abjure bribery in the hope of shaming others into doing the same . |
| 12 | I mean that is really , in a sense , what we 're all about at the International Disaster Institute , is to try and carefully work out what happens to people in various parts of the world . |
| 13 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 14 | To live the gesture in immobility is to evoke and therefore to have observed the gesture . |
| 15 | Now of course they will say that their goal is to win but unfortunately their actions do n't seem to reflect this ; no matter the amount of money Leeds needs to keep its class players if it wants to win . |
| 16 | The first interest is to win and then to help the team who pays you and looks after you , but there is a right way of doing it . ’ |
| 17 | The irresistible thing is to suggest that even the most resolute of England 's footballers , ever mindful of the predicament that could result from defeat , are not entirely immune to what awaits them today in Poland . |
| 18 | ‘ The knowledge society ’ requires new forms of dialogue between professionals and citizens , if society is to comprehend and effectively confront the problems facing it . |
| 19 | Health check:A free company health check to help businesses cut costs is on offer from Barclays Commercial Services the aim is to identify and then set about solving cash flow problems . |
| 20 | But if his aim is to justify as well as to interpret Marx 's theory , the point becomes more pressing . |
| 21 | The means of salvaging something of the disposition is to recognize that so far as the daughter has benefited under her father 's will she may be obliged by a trust . |
| 22 | ‘ The eventual aim is to clear and then re-develop the entire area , ’ he added . |
| 23 | The purpose of the provisions relating to copyright is to ensure that both composer and publisher receive the reward which is due to them for their work . |
| 24 | Erm we are making more money in favour to them and our resolution is to ensure that even a , a profile of work to be carried out , so that it 's quite clear what 's been done , the time scale , the er the amount of resources that is going to be needed . |
| 25 | So many different factors may be relevant that no generalized conclusions can be reached , and the best that librarians can do is to ensure that as far as possible conditions for use in their own libraries are adapted to meet what research has revealed as ideal conditions . |
| 26 | The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ . |
| 27 | The studies adopt a multi-disciplinary approach and the choice of subjects , contributors and participants is guided by a standing advisory panel whose aim is to ensure that all important views receive expression . |
| 28 | For Dorothy Heathcote , whether the object is a shirt , a piece of leather , a chess-piece , a book or a surgeon 's knife , the teacher 's responsibility is to invite or even compel the children to work from a ‘ frame ’ ( used here in the sociological sense of ‘ perspective ’ ) that requires not engagement , but detachment . |
| 29 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 30 | The only way out of the dilemma is to suppose that sometimes the photon gets through and sometimes it does not . |