Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development has been swift and Worknet now has a staff of twenty eight people , all of whom are dedicated to assisting the community in their search for employment or training . |
| 2 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 3 | So ( and this is my conclusion ) I am resigned to living as I have lived : alone , with my throng of great men as my only cronies — a bear , with my bear-rug for company . |
| 4 | ‘ I walked away and put things on hold for a couple of years but now I am committed to getting that shirt , ’ he added . |
| 5 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 6 | I am committed to ensuring that the few incompetent and dishonest members of our profession are rooted out . |
| 7 | I am committed to making sure that you have the premises , the technology and the support to make these changes . |
| 8 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 9 | Er , but in the ordinary course of events er , this afternoon is , is I 'm dedicated to using as many cliches as I possibly can , erm , is , is , you know , that works very well as a way of protecting time for myself . |
| 10 | Yeah I 'm going to getting the stamps off these en envelopes cos I have to put all these in a hurry in the end , also got loads of time , then I realised it was half past ten , no wonder I did n't get anything at home forgotten where we keep them |
| 11 | I 'm going to funking live there from now on . |
| 12 | Actually I 've I I I 'm I ca n't do it now but at the next the next traffic I 'm going to liven it up a bit for you . |
| 13 | At this moment I 'm committed to seeing out my contract . ’ |
| 14 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 15 | I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth . |
| 16 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 17 | ‘ I was taken to squeezing people 's behinds . |
| 18 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 19 | As far as my education on the subject was concerned I was reduced to listening to gossip in the hope of learning more . |
| 20 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 21 | ‘ I was attracted to running because it is a sport where you depend only on yourself to achieve something and from the start I just wanted to enjoy it , not to beat others . |
| 22 | Yours was sent to sent on to the charity work . |
| 23 | By corollary monetary policies which are geared to stabilizing the rate of growth of the money supply ( or , more generally , reducing the unanticipated component of a given change in the money supply ) will eliminate the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment . |
| 24 | In the absence of mass mobilization around antiracist aims , it has been impossible to construct structures that could span the gulf between the elements of the movement which are outside the local state and the residues which are dedicated to remaining within it . |
| 25 | Indeed he appeared to hold out the offer of an alliance with the radicals , insisting that there should be no split " among the democratic , progressive forces which are dedicated to carrying out transformations in society " . |
| 26 | line and I think you 'll find that now there are in fact six two three lines of television information , and there are two lines which are dedicated to carrying teletext data |
| 27 | The Hampton Court Horse Rangers , unlike their six fellow branches around the country which are attached to riding schools , owns all its horses and ponies , and either fund-raises money to buy them , or has mounts donated by anyone from Capital Radio to pop group The Moody Blues . |
| 28 | Its core would be those states which are committed to making European co-operation work across the board from security to social policy : Germany and its immediate neighbours . |
| 29 | But to secure this future we are dependent on nationwide availability of properly capitalised bookshops which are committed to carrying a wide range of stock . |
| 30 | He also pointed out that some ‘ satellite ’ oilfields , which are linked to processing plant on older platforms , could face higher costs through the ending of an allowance on tariff receipts , discouraging the use of existing pipelines and other infrastructure . |