Example sentences of "be [pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been my pleasure to meet many members at various functions and both Mary and I look forward to meeting many more of you during the coming year . |
| 2 | Among these advantages are their ability to represent partial information in an elegant way ; the inherent potential for structure sharing ; the declarative description of information flow , and a mathematically clean and computationally tractable type system with inheritance ( Bouma et al , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |
| 4 | One of reasons for the survival of the S&C into the 1980s had been its ability to handle diverted WCML trains ; this continued despite withdrawal of Intercity services in the winter 1982–3 timetable . |
| 5 | He gives Sting away at III , 204 , keeping an orc-blade but saying ‘ I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again . ’ |
| 6 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | If you have material of your own in the Installation Directory , it will be your responsibility to make sure that they are backed up before , and properly restored after , an installation or upgrade . |
| 8 | It will be your responsibility to organise any rehearsals scheduled for the day of the performance , making sure that teams know what time their slot is and that they keep to it . |
| 9 | And possibly — I say possibly , mark you — when I have done so , it may be your turn to feel obliged to me ! ’ |
| 10 | It would be our intention to update this valuation once we have prepared the Information memorandum and undertaken some further research into recent deals in comparable [ type of industry ] sectors . |
| 11 | It had been his responsibility to take all the different times and sightings of Drew , and rationalise them . |
| 12 | It had rarely been his style to use that instrument . |
| 13 | It had been his job to grow all the flowers in the first place , and they all had to be at their best on this particular auspicious day in June . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
| 16 | It is my purpose to expose such ideas as erroneous and offer in their place an account based on social processes . |
| 17 | It is my choice to earn less and have that freedom . ’ |
| 18 | This month , however , is my chance to put all that to rights . |
| 19 | As you will see from this supplement , AEA offers a wide range of consultancy , technical services and specialist products to the process industries and , as Business Development Director for the Process Industries , it is my pleasure to use this opportunity to introduce myself and AEA . |
| 20 | Dear colleagues , it is my pleasure to send fraternal greetings to all delegates at the G M B Conference from the Executive Officers and Members of the T & G. In the twelve months since I last sent you our good wishes much activity has taken place within our movement . |
| 21 | Mr Andrew Cammish , representing Shaun Williams , had told them : ‘ Justice must be seen to be done as well as be done and it is my duty to bring any particular irregularity to the court 's attention . |
| 22 | As you have often told me , Leslie , as a wife of a current first-team member , it is my duty to flaunt these qualities whenever possible , for the good of the club . |
| 23 | The course boasts a large conservation area , and it is my intention to plant some two thousand species of hardwood trees . |
| 24 | It is my intention to add one more possibility to the existing collection in the hope that it may bring this intriguing issue into perhaps a less mystifying perspective . |
| 25 | It is my intention to keep hon. Members informed of the temporary arrangements that will be made for the UKIAS refugee unit . |
| 26 | I would not , for one moment , pretend erm that it is my job to inculcate those virtues in fifteen hundred . |
| 27 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 28 | ‘ Now it 's my turn to say sorry . ’ |
| 29 | It 's my duty to cover certain pastoral matters before we actually get on to the business of the seminar . |
| 30 | It 's my job to keep all the wounds clean . |