Example sentences of "[be] to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're to get away , as far as you can . ’ |
| 2 | It 's been lovely talking with you , but if I 'm to get home … ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
| 4 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 5 | In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout . |
| 6 | ‘ If we are to get there in time we must go at once , ’ Marian said . |
| 7 | However , if our main aim had been to get as many ‘ ordinary people ’ involved as possible , this was in danger of being frustrated by the sheer bureaucracy of the process . |
| 8 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 9 | The doctor had left instructions as to where they were to go and how they were to get there . |
| 10 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 11 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 12 | But if they were to get together they 'd realise that they 're very much alike . ’ |
| 13 | But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen . |
| 14 | You probably wo n't be surprised to learn then , that those past masters of glam-drag dressing-up , Marc Bolan and Adam Ant , are two of Justin 's heroes , whom he says came from ‘ an underground scene but realised the only way to put their music across , to really entertain people , is to get right out there in the main arena . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The idea of the new move is to get away from the possibilities of cross-contamination ’ , a ministry spokeswoman said . |
| 16 | ‘ You know how hard it is to get away , Rose . ’ |
| 17 | They share a common and deeply significant trend in philosophy , and that trend is to get away from hierarchy and control and to move towards emphasis upon what Peters calls ‘ The Front Line People ’ — and we know who they are ! |
| 18 | Then , of course , the trick is to get away with it … |
| 19 | The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months . |
| 20 | Here , the degree of control exerted by the fieldworker over the speech-exchange is the guiding principle , and the fieldworker 's aim is to get away from interview style ( that is , to lose control ) as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Mira 's dream is to get away from both this approach to the past and the alternative approach of realist fiction , to found a school of history in which ‘ The highest marks will be given , not to the most correct which will be unverifiable but to the most ingenious ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 22 | But you know , dear boy , the only possible reason for taking a job like this is to get away from school or family . ’ |
| 23 | THE North-East is to get nearly £12.5m to help clear away its eyesores in the coming year . |
| 24 | One way of cutting costs of course is to get together with other people and bulk buy items such as rice , pulses , flour and cereals . |
| 25 | The solution for this is to get together again soon and reaffirm love and commitment to one another . |
| 26 | Both men know the only way ahead to avoid a national racial bloodbath is to get together and start talking again . |
| 27 | What you really want to do is to get together through to there do n't you ? |
| 28 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 29 | What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners . |
| 30 | What she wants , what she really wants , is to get seriously fucked in Florida . |