Example sentences of "[Wh adv] be [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement ? |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 3 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 4 | But how was she to get through the rest of the evening ? |
| 5 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |