Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ONLY way to haggle is to dazzle your quarry with a winning smile , says a guide to effective negotiation out today . |
| 2 | If we are interested in the political opinions of young people , then all we have to do is to decide what age group we are interested in , and our population consists of all those people . |
| 3 | The first thing to do is to give them food and shelter , medicine , and chance to take a bath , some clothing . |
| 4 | ‘ What we can not afford to do is to sacrifice our core investment programme in Chemicals which is so important to the long-term future . ’ |
| 5 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 6 | But certainly during these early stages the most you will usually be asked to do is to nod your head or say ‘ yes ’ at appropriate times . |
| 7 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 8 | What we 've got to do is , or I 've got to do is to get our sister companies to visit the buggers . |
| 9 | Perhaps the only thing to do is to make her dance as Elizabeth von Rosen so memorably did for the Royal Danish Ballet decades ago . |
| 10 | Now what we need to do is to change your water tablets and to change your er medication a little bit . |
| 11 | What you need to do is to rehearse your talk so that the final delivery can be fluent and easy . |
| 12 | What we were trying to do was to give our business a ‘ new ’ manufacturing tool that has a sharper edge with which to attack competitors and chop off more market share . |
| 13 | But what he 'd got to do was to plan his time , and work out his priorities , by distinguishing between those tasks that are urgent and those tasks that are important . |
| 14 | All he had to do was to put his head forward and up , instead of pulling it back and down , and his problem would be solved . |
| 15 | Sophie glanced at Joanna , who shrugged , then at Helen , who was looking anxious , and , although Mr Greenwood 's attitude towards professional etiquette was more than a little arrogant , the last thing she wanted to do was to upset her godmother . |
| 16 | It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed . |
| 17 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 18 | All they wanted to do was to send me love . |
| 19 | And Mr Hanley said : ‘ All I wanted to do was to protect my family . |
| 20 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 21 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 22 | The only way to tell is to ask your dealer , so please ensure that you are dealing with one that you can trust , especially if you have to specifically order them . |