Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be there to work . |
| 2 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 3 | It was to this latter end that Wilson 's journeyings were largely devoted , while the emphasis of his argument was that acceptance of the union 's position , far from creating a tyranny of trade unionism , would lead to greater discrimination in recruitment and to higher standards of seamanship and greater efficiency which would be greatly to the advantage of the shipowners themselves . |
| 4 | His presence , of course , will make things rather difficult for Canaris which will be all to the good . ’ |
| 5 | On 8 March 1779 he wrote to his ambassador , ‘ We can provide plans which will be sufficiently to the taste of M. de Florida Blanca ’ , and a small planning group , which included the French Minister of War , the Prince de Montbarey , and of Marine , Gabriel de Sartine , was set up . |
| 6 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 7 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 8 | We 'll be across to Colin as soon as the half time whistle goes . |
| 9 | Yet there may be less to this unambiguous declaration than meets the eye . |
| 10 | There may be more to it . |
| 11 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 12 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 13 | She said there must be more to it than just worrying about wanting a small waist , and she was right : out it came . |
| 14 | It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it ! |
| 15 | But I ca n't help feeling that there must be more to it than that . |
| 16 | And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch . |
| 17 | Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities . |
| 18 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 19 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 20 | Admittedly they were only nineteen , but surely , he reasoned , there must be more to married life than this ? |
| 21 | SO MANY have praised Graeme Hick that there must be more to him than has been revealed . |
| 22 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 23 | There must be more to him than Beatrice thought . |
| 24 | It all started when he decided there must be more to life than selling plants and motor spares , and set off to seek his fortune in Australia with £100 in his pocket . |
| 25 | Without sounding too clichéd about it , there should be more to it than that . |
| 26 | Like many people , maybe you 're feeling that there should be more to a summer holiday than sun , sea and of course , crowds . |
| 27 | There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX . |
| 28 | It seemed to the hedgehog that there should be more to it than that . |
| 29 | And if you 're old or poor or handicapped or just think there should be more to life than this — then go to hell . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’ |