Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [be] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's response was to call on its country support and put the matter before the Lords again . |
| 2 | By 1983 , although the weaknesses of the programme were increasingly acknowledged within the party , the government 's response was to resort to more authoritarian methods of ‘ policing ’ the villages . |
| 3 | Chapman 's response was to inquire after Grimsby marksman Ernie Coleman and Sheffield United 's record goal-scorer , Irish international Jimmy Dunne , both possible successors to Lambert . |
| 4 | Hill 's hope is to stay with Williams , but if not , to be in a competitive car . |
| 5 | Number Ten had captured the tactical unit ; Francis Tite 's genius was to carry off the strategic one . |
| 6 | The one serious omission of Behr 's script was to discuss from whom they were shielding him : is kidnapping an inevitable corollary of even relative economic freedom ? |
| 7 | Barwick 's intention is to stick with cutters . |
| 8 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 9 | BISHOP Eamonn Casey 's son and his mother 's lover are to appear in court after a punch-up at their Connecticut home . |
| 10 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 11 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 12 | The critic 's skill is to identify for each and every work just what the various priorities are , and apply those criteria uniformly to every version . |
| 13 | There the Church 's work is to point to Jesus the Messiah and his death , and to sin , and to judgement . |
| 14 | Once this had been established , the aim of Marx 's work was to break through this veil of ideology . |
| 15 | ‘ As you may guess , his Grace 's business is to do with the fellow who rode in here yesterday morning . |
| 16 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 17 | Having decided the touring period and the size of halls a band will play , the agent 's job is to work with local promoters to determine the ticket price . |
| 18 | Philby 's job was to liaise with the FBI and CIA on intelligence matters . |
| 19 | All my friends and playmates were Indian and , since my father 's job was to act as guardian to a Maharajah some five years older than me , I looked upon Bahadur as an older brother . |
| 20 | Uncle Fred 's job was to look after displaced persons , sad , homeless victims of the war . |
| 21 | Edward 's job was to prepare for the arrival of the family . |
| 22 | It is also worth remembering that the way to hold someone 's attention is to look at them . |
| 23 | In January I announced that a chat show host 's spouse was to appear in EastEnders . |
| 24 | The hole became a jointly waged battle and three times Fred Peasley 's ball was to blow off the green . |
| 25 | Herbert 's eccentricity was to dress as a tramp , and his appearance was further affected by his blindness and by a piebald hair coloration , after an early attack of alopecia . |
| 26 | Topsel 's compromise was to suggest to his readers that ‘ with a wary and discreet eye we must avoid their harms , making more account of their use than of their persons ’ . |
| 27 | A further way of introducing some purpose to a day 's sailing is to experiment with different ways of doing things , since you can only be sure that you have found the best way by deliberately trying different ways . |
| 28 | Eubank 's priority is to recover from a badly-bruised right forearm , sustained as early as the second round of a unanimous victory which stretched his winning sequence to 35 . |
| 29 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |
| 30 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |