Example sentences of "be to do [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , if so 's you 're to do wi' Brownies an' you could bring yum back to t' dale , ma'am , folk like me would be much obliged , ’ said Aunt Nellie .
2 I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’
3 Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’
4 With regard to our role as consumers the questions have been to do with patterns of expenditure , changes in life-style , and , in particular , changes in leisure patterns .
5 It dawned on Loretta that the latter half of Bridget 's remark had been to do with Puddephat 's taste in footwear , not the object she was holding .
6 The reasons for incorporating men in systems are to do with properties such as flexibility and adaptability which by their nature are not specifiable in numerical terms .
7 Essentially , all these blocks to communication and self-expression are to do with feelings of inadequacy , and poor self-image .
8 Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing .
9 Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing .
10 Erm , what would be more useful if you could identify the stories , that are to do with memories .
11 The facts before them are to do with people dying and being buried or cremated .
12 Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment .
13 It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action .
14 In the civilian context the purposes of attitude training are to do with care about quality and safety .
15 The relevant requirements ( which have the force of law ) are to do with drainage and ventilation of rooms containing WCs .
16 The older way is to use the command ASSIGN A : =B : B : =A : but in todays modern MS-DOS this is discouraged for reasons that are to do with networking and device drivers .
17 And then the long-term ones are to do with demography , with the birth rate , with the number of children in schools which , as most people are probably aware , have gone down dramatically in the last decade .
18 In this respect Marshall , too , was confusing since he made no explicit distinction between those civil rights which are to do with citizenship — freedom of expression and association for example — and those which are to do with protecting the citizen from the state or the community — the freedom to marry and found a family , a right to privacy for instance .
19 Each frame has all kinds of details associated with it , and the ones you can control explicitly are to do with backgrounds , wipes , sound and a few other bits and bobs like frame display timing .
20 ‘ T is a rare pity thar ai n't no Brownies now in t' dale to do good turns to housewives , with all t' jobs there are to do from morn till night . ’
21 sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm
22 In setting up a method of intervention the main problems you will face will be to do with consequences ; rewarding , withholding rewards , and punishing .
23 Why he did not sustain the promise of the works of the 1890s is not clear , though it is certainly connected with the change to a much more conservative and less experimental architectural climate in Britain in the 1900s , when there was a revival of baroque and French Renaissance architecture ; it may also be to do with Townsend 's own equivocal and confused attitude towards the value of architectural traditions .
24 I do n't think the whole question of cars and safety has never really been looked at properly it all seems to do , to be to do with cars and performance and I would like to see a lot more about cars and safety and like
25 What would there be to do in Hillmarden ? ’
26 And I think a lot of the things to do with the way we viewed men were to do with women experiencing profound and debilitating sexism within all those respective movements and this is why we had to really re-think things in a radical way and I 'm very proud of that .
27 All the books that people read were to do with God .
28 And just one final word of warning , and that is to do with newspapers .
29 The world of the mundane is to do with success , status , respect , money , desires of all kinds , and fears , that lead to unhappiness .
30 My second point is to do with love .
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