Example sentences of "be [to-vb] and [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 | The filter has two functions , the main one being to polish and biologically filter the water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | To live the gesture in immobility is to evoke and therefore to have observed the gesture . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The knowledge society ’ requires new forms of dialogue between professionals and citizens , if society is to comprehend and effectively confront the problems facing it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The eventual aim is to clear and then re-develop the entire area , ’ he added . |
| 14 | The objective is to revise and almost reverse the traditional accountancy concept of man-power as a resource consuming factor requiring regular payments , overheads in the form of heated , lighted , equipped workspaces and so on . |
| 15 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 16 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |
| 17 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 18 | It wants to give tourism back to the GLC , yet the only contribution that the GLC made to tourism was to destabilise and almost destroy the London tourist board . |
| 19 | Added to which was the emotional harassment of fellow priest Laverty whose idea of support was to visit and then accuse her of trying to wreck the life of a good priest . |
| 20 | His first achievement as a professor was to overcome and then reverse the suspicion with which his appointment was received . |