Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless someone has a better solution , can I ask the many thousands of WCM readers who are as infuriated as I am to write and complain to the BBC 's Head Programme Scheduler . |
| 2 | Under a contract for the sale of goods the seller 's basic obligation is to deliver the goods , and the buyer 's basic obligations are to accept and pay for them ( SGA 1979 , s27 ) . |
| 3 | And , of course , a central concern of feminism has been to identify and fight against the kinds of coercion to which women have been subjected , including things like physical violence and economic dependence . |
| 4 | It is essential that we should maintain both our sensitivity and our effectiveness , if we are to protect and watch over the interests of the people we work for and provide the kind of services they need . |
| 5 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 7 | Her initial task will be to try and regularise for us all the amount of information that we have about what is sent to which categories of all the Christian Aid materials and then go on to hopefully ‘ plug the gaps ’ in church contacts . |
| 8 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 9 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 10 | Their paths were to cross and recross in the years ahead . |
| 11 | The lack of a UN monitoring team adequate to the scale of the task , in conjunction with a failure to implement the plan by which all troops were to disengage and gather at demobilization assembly points by the agreed date , meant that the security situation remained unstable . |
| 12 | The only reasons for the establishment of Kuznetsk were to collect and trade in furs and control the natives . |
| 13 | Sir Jack Brabham says he 's never been so excited about a new motor car and the challenge is to go and take on the best |
| 14 | So as to avoid any political consideration of policies , the auditor 's brief is to monitor and report upon agencies ' and departments ' approaches for monitoring and reviewing their own effectiveness . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's only one way to find out , ’ said David smoothly , ‘ and that 's to go and see for yourself . |
| 16 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 17 | If collective bargaining of this kind is to continue and improve for the benefit of both , it is essential that employees ' organisation should be fully representative . |
| 18 | ( Similarly , the self-relatedness within God 's triunity is opened up as the basis on which he calls into being creatures other than himself , creatures whose raison d'être is to mirror and participate in his relation to himself . ) |
| 19 | One is to minimize the significance of possible semantic differences between variants , and the other is to acknowledge and use as a foundation for the analysis the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse . |
| 20 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 21 | All we can do is to try and insure against the possibility of ill-judged disposal by some sort of division of labour . |
| 22 | The same principle applies to those whose natural instinct is to try and merge with the wallpaper . |
| 23 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
| 24 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 25 | An alternative to attacking the enzymes that catalyse important steps in the viral lifecycle is to try and interfere with the viral genetic material directly . |
| 26 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 27 | ‘ All I want is to stand and look at you , dear boy ! ’ he said . |
| 28 | And tell Peigi she 's to come and help in the hall . |
| 29 | The first thought is to find and clap in jail |
| 30 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |