Example sentences of "[pron] be [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanics , the in-house mechanics , which are nothing to do with the backbenchers , which they know nothing of and understand even less . |
| 2 | Who am I to argue with the Bard ? |
| 3 | Stars who were nothing to do with the film but stuck their necks out anyway included Sharon ( Basic Instinct ) Stone and Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestley . |
| 4 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 5 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 6 | We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners . |
| 7 | There 's plenty to do in the evening at all our HCI Clubs . |
| 8 | There 's nothing to do in the country , so it 's impossible to do anything bad . |
| 9 | I 'll have to go up to shop to get some shopping cos there 's nothing to eat in the house . |
| 10 | " There 's nothing to hope from the Council , " said Alice , and seeing a sneer , or snarl , of Well , of course not ! persisted , " But I 've thought of something else . " |
| 11 | There 's something to do with the slow , fast thing . |
| 12 | Inner-city blacks often see better-paid jobs as beyond their reach : they ask for too many qualifications , they are too far away , there is nobody to look after the children . |
| 13 | Dressing-up crazes and the appearance of huge inflatables suggest the stirrings of a new culture of spectatorship but there is nothing to compare with the Italian spectacle . |
| 14 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 15 | And Hill added : ‘ There is nothing to report to the FA as far as I am concerned . |
| 16 | ONE of the great advantages of villages over cities for chronic insomniacs , such as I am , is that late at night there is nothing to do in a village except read . |
| 17 | Yet there is nothing to show in the trophy cabinet of his Harpenden home to commemorate a romantic chapter in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 18 | But there the analysis ends : there is no clear parallel to the apparent inability of some sufferers to get into substantial recovery , if at all , and there is nothing to correspond to the process of relapse even when , on the face of it , all recommendations are being followed . |
| 19 | There is plenty to do on the beautifully wide soft sandy beach and in the historic old town . |
| 20 | Nightlife is good , and there is plenty to do in the evenings , whether you 're looking for a quiet drink or a bop in a disco . |
| 21 | But while you are waiting , there is plenty to see in the historic ‘ plague village ’ , such as the village stocks , the original ‘ Plague Cottage ’ and , of course , the church of St Lawrence . |
| 22 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 23 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 24 | I felt that there was nothing to fear from a united states of Europe with a single currency . |
| 25 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 26 | I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with ! |
| 27 | There was nothing to check in the front parlour ; hardly anything to say goodbye to , for the room was empty of furniture and must remain that way until the shops would once again have chairs and sofas and rugs and curtains to sell . |
| 28 | This made conquest almost impossible , as there was nothing to conquer in the customary sense of European or Asiatic warfare . |
| 29 | They will carry radios to show they are something to do with the Cornmill . |
| 30 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |