Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , we feel the main objective should be to give support where we have a significant local presence — a refinery or chemicals plant , for example . |
| 2 | I 'm to contact Laidlaw if I come up with anything . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My function , Mr. Gerrard , is to report facts as I find them . |
| 4 | If the sport attracts , but the pocket suggests caution , the logical step is to try windsurfing before you buy . |
| 5 | It may be that their main requisite at this stage is to find protection whilst they continue to live off their food reserves remaining from the food capsule . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that the tendency of applied science is to magnify injustices until they become too intolerable to be borne , and the average man whom all the prophets and poets could not move , turns at last and extinguishes the evil at its source ’ . |
| 7 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 8 | The greatest sin in the world is to have sex when you do n't want it . |
| 9 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 10 | Doug Ferguson , the County Durham-born former national cricket coach for the North of England , is to coach Bermuda when they face the England A team in a forthcoming tour of the Caribbean . |
| 11 | The last thing Ken Sawkins wants is to upset people but he feels strongly that he is doing the area a good turn . |
| 12 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 13 | The first priority was to restore order and she made it plain that she backed the police unequivocally in doing so . |
| 14 | His enthusiasm was to visit Ireland and he had read whatever he could get hold of by Irish writers , but especially by Flann O'Brien . |
| 15 | His first reaction was to reject Morgan until he remembered the abortive Cardiff robbery . |
| 16 | My immediate reaction was to reduce power and I grabbed for the throttles . |
| 17 | Duncan briefed us on what was to take place and we staggered backwards into the harbour , barking like seals and standing on each others fins . |
| 18 | Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London . |