Example sentences of "[modal v] be [to-vb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole point of a visit to Hong Kong now , five months after Tiananmen Square , should be to declare with royal authority that Britain shares the concerns of the Hong Kong people and is determined to do something about them . |
| 2 | In general , our policy should be to proceed with building our state block by block , without waiting to be given a gift of it through negotiations . |
| 3 | It must be to do with the power of the Worm . |
| 4 | If we are not to be disillusioned , therefore , and retreat back into the relative safety and tranquillity of the withdrawal unit , part of our responsibility as teachers of children with special educational needs must be to tackle with class teachers ways to improve the curriculum at the level of general class-room practice . |
| 5 | Our first response to this must be to work with our partners in the public and private sectors to generate new economic activity and employment opportunities , and to enhance the access to these jobs by all Glasgow 's residents . |
| 6 | The alternative might be to arrange with your bank manager to transfer these funds into a separate account in your sister 's name , er … before … while you are still , er … in a position to do so . |
| 7 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 8 | Physically she had to admit he still turned her on and probably always would , but , having found out just how irritating he could be to live with she was furious to discover that his sex appeal was far too potent a force for her feelings to be seriously affected , no matter how cross with him she felt at the moment . |
| 9 | Part of the reason could be to do with my genes : my other and grandmother were both very beautiful women who looked after themselves . |
| 10 | Your information could be to do with other people : knowing what –heir capabilities are , what motivates them , where they have influence . |
| 11 | He says it could be to do with common land rights or fertlity , but no one really knows . |
| 12 | Under existing UK tax legislation , the right to tax credits payable under the double tax treaty to US companies can be withdrawn and one option could be to start with companies based in California where the state tax authorities have been allowed to tax foreign-owned companies on a formula-apportioned share of worldwide group income . |
| 13 | ‘ May be to do with that newsflash we heard about the pile-up near Freiburg . |
| 14 | It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Till we know what ‘ this ’ is , ’ he said reasonably , ‘ everything may be to do with it . ’ |
| 16 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 17 | It may be to do with a certain understandable nervousness because they are so far away from the London scene . |
| 18 | When there is information to give about a diagnosis of terminal disease , for example , it is always the statutorily determined next of kin who are given the information , regardless of how suitable they may be to cope with such information emotionally , and regardless of how involved in the actual care of Mr Patient they are . |
| 19 | The inclination of historians may be to begin with their stock-in-trade , the arguments , but this is unlikely to be the best starting point for many , especially those who are new to the profession . |
| 20 | But imagine how hard it would be to cope with if you were deaf and blind — like Julia Gates . |
| 21 | It would probably be necessary meantime to adopt a tougher line with the rightists : ‘ The only safe alternative would be to arrange with the Soviet Union for mutual withdrawal of troops and let nature take its course which will eventually mean another Soviet satellite state in Korea . ’ |
| 22 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 23 | On taking office in August 1974 , Ford declared that his first priority would be to deal with the ailing American economy . |
| 24 | To do otherwise , would be to sit back and watch the raison d'etre of conglomeration being reversed by a misplaced process of reregulation ; that would be to give with one hand , and take with the other . |
| 25 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 26 | I mean they ai n't sort of I mean what they could force you to do if they really , I mean they would never do that but what they could force you to do or Les to do would be to check with all those people who I 've actually sort of made payments to , to make sure that I have . |
| 27 | Schmidt waited to see how bad it would be to begin with — a gauge of how bad it might become . |
| 28 | Erm and then it says that somebody called Natalie erm wrote in nineteen seventy five , that the greater somebody 's need for approval , the greater their tendency will be to converge with a style . |
| 29 | In setting up a method of intervention the main problems you will face will be to do with consequences ; rewarding , withholding rewards , and punishing . |
| 30 | The purpose of these days will be to join with others who are interested in finding out about the work of Cafod or Faith and Justice and to support and encourage those working with poverty both in our own diocese and in other parts of the world . |