Example sentences of "[pron] be [pron] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 2 | However , the prospect that such a strategy might succeed appeared somewhat remote from the outset given the rather equivocal commitment to freedom of conscience under the convention as a whole ( not least of which is its failure to incorporate a right of conscientious objection to compulsory military service ( Dignan , 1983 ) ) . |
| 3 | Every year we and the national Young Solicitors Group jointly arrange the visit by the chairmen of various overseas young bars for the Opening of the Legal Year , which is our chance to repay the hospitality offered to us by them . |
| 4 | In fact , for some years I had my own dog , first Bess and then Judith , and she was my responsibility to feed , groom and exercise . |
| 5 | All the swims that have given me good dace fishing seemed to have shared similar features , the main one being their tendency to become shallower towards the tail . |
| 6 | The minor one is his failure to recognise the function of historians . |
| 7 | The major one is his failure to recognise the positive aspects of nationalism and ethnicity . |
| 8 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
| 9 | One was his failure to hold a direct election for the presidency last year . |
| 10 | There 's your tractor to do , there 's my motorbike to do , and so many other |
| 11 | There 's your tractor to do , there 's my motorbike to do , and so many other |
| 12 | And there is his willingness to play fast and loose with the facts . |
| 13 | There was her article to write and her whole way of life in London . |
| 14 | Harvey was the better catch , and there was her speech to worry about . |
| 15 | And there was her speech to write . |
| 16 | Then there was his failure to embrace the Shatalin plan for market reforms , which , for all its faults , would have meant a clear break with the centrally planned past . |
| 17 | And there was my mother to think about , she pleaded . |
| 18 | ‘ There was my family to look after , and the business to run . |
| 19 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 20 | It being my intention to encamp near their haunts in order if possible to obtain their eggs and learn something of their habits of nidification … |
| 21 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 22 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 23 | It 's their choice to run away . |
| 24 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 25 | And I know it 's their intention to discuss it and to make appropriate representations . |
| 26 | It 's their intention to have a car as close to Zoom as possible in production by 1995 . |
| 27 | Gentlemen like our good host still believe it 's their business to meddle in matters they do n't understand . |
| 28 | Some officers think it 's their duty to go around , you know , ‘ Right , we 've got the keys and you ai n't going nowhere . ’ |
| 29 | You 're a girl , they 're blokes , they seem to think it 's their duty to comment ; it does n't matter what you 're wearing . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's their duty to find Sam — and to protect her . ’ |