Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 2 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 3 | This was to be raised by various subscribers who would be limited to buying twenty shares each . |
| 4 | She will be reduced to wearing baggy jumpers and those shapeless monsters , maternity dresses , for the next nine months . |
| 5 | If everybody does not have the moral resolve to make their views known , and their presence felt , we will be restricted to walking reservations and climbing on climbing walls . |
| 6 | This is an aspect of pastoral development in which small groups meet together principally for Bible study but , in many cases , they may be devoted to promoting other activities as well , such as literacy classes or agricultural cooperatives . |
| 7 | They will be geared to making us express how we lack contentment with one system of government or another . |
| 8 | In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’ |
| 9 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 10 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 11 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 12 | IBM Corp has gone to the Distributed Computing Solutions arm of General Atomics Inc , San Diego for its UniTree file and storage management software ‘ for use and distribution on the entire line of IBM computers , ’ although it seems likely that it will be confined to running under Unix for now . |
| 13 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |