Example sentences of "be [to-vb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 2 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 3 | We were to stay a few days longer here , for Flora 's sake . |
| 4 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 5 | This is fundamentally a defensive approach reflecting an assumption that progress will inevitably erode biological diversity and quality , and the only way to prevent complete loss is to ring-fence a few of the best ‘ sites ’ for posterity while allowing development to take its course elsewhere . |
| 6 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 7 | David 's fashion advice this season is to buy a few good , interchangeable basics with a strong silhouette : ‘ A shift dress , and a flared jacket or a blazer will be the classics . |
| 8 | The easiest way to introduce the strategy is to give a few simple demonstrations : 1 . |
| 9 | Before going ahead and mixing a perfume as directed in the ‘ Aromatic Concoctions ’ section , the easiest and perhaps the most economical way to experiment is to put a few drops on a damp cotton wool stick . |
| 10 | The usual method of taking the Bach Remedies is to put a few drops in a cup of springwater which is then sipped at intervals . |
| 11 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 12 | All we have to do is to propose a few initial targets , and guidelines , to get it launched . |
| 13 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 14 | Instead the intention is to describe a few of the salient features of the more relevant groups in order to show something of the motivations and workings of the voluntary youth movement prior to the introduction of collectivist measures after 1900 , and to suggest why the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers were eager to incorporate several aspects of the movement 's practice and ideology within those policies . |
| 15 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 16 | The idea of the ballet is to sketch a few facets of a man 's life as seen by him ( hence Unisoculous — one eye ) . |
| 17 | One good idea is to analyse a few stories by your favourite authors before you begin , not to begin , not to copy their style , but to find out how much plot you need for 5000 words or less . |
| 18 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 19 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 20 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 21 | The first step in the evaluation of the ANLT processing system was to select a few sentences from the Longman/Lancaster corpus and samples of recognised text ( the HP business text in Appendix 5 and estate agents details ) . |
| 22 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 23 | If David was to have a few drinks it would all come out . |
| 24 | My job was to say a few words that might comfort both groups . |
| 25 | Washington 's stance seems sure to complicate the United Airlines buyout , which was to close a few days after the 10 October deadline set by Mr Skinner for information on BA 's involvement . |
| 26 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |