Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see them is to believe in love , real old-fashioned romantic love . |
| 2 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
| 3 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 4 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 5 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 6 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 7 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 8 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 9 | There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did . |
| 10 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 11 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 12 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 13 | I just wanted you to know I was thinking of you . |
| 14 | Well if you 've got a cloth er parcel with , with , wrapped in cloth you know everybody knew where you were going and I did n't like people to know I was going to , been to the pawnshop . |
| 15 | The slide away that many people accept as being inevitable is based on a number of assumptions we are conditioned to accept which are reinforced by the comments of others . |
| 16 | nice to know somebody 's going to be polite this morning |
| 17 | ‘ Remember that I do n't want Clare to know she 's included in the trust until she apologizes ! |
| 18 | Erm you know perhaps in , in years to come you 're looking over this work just to , to check on it , you the the these 'll , these 'll be a help to you . |
| 19 | An opportunity for some of this pressure to vent itself was provided in the early sixties . |
| 20 | How was I to know who was marching up the stairs and in here ? |
| 21 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 22 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 23 | Alter notifying our Commander , we chugged over in our motor boat to find she was crewed by a schoolmaster and several of his senior boys . |
| 24 | Then one morning on her way to work she was distracted by a commotion across the street and as she crossed she saw the owner of the hand being thrown out of a shop . |
| 25 | The thing is , with this I do n't think half the people listen to you 're meant to know you 're meant to , in these exams you 're meant to have everything you should know and everything else |
| 26 | ‘ He would be proud to know you were sitting in the audience tonight . ’ |
| 27 | To know something is to participate in a communicable truth . |
| 28 | We put enough rehearsal in to know we were going to be okay ; it was n't people just going up there and jamming . ’ |
| 29 | I think we have to accept there 's going to be a period of transition . |
| 30 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |