Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your committee considered various sitings and concluded that the present position is most suitable for the 3 large 1100 litre bins which are eventually to replace the exiting heterogeneous collection . |
| 2 | I am not to tell the other Rons . |
| 3 | ‘ If we are not to waste the two days , we ought to focus on something concrete . |
| 4 | We 're off to join the Provisional Government … in Botany Bay , eh ? ’ the voice behind him laughed dryly . |
| 5 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 6 | When actors say they want to be like Cary Grant , it 's usually a sign they 're about to make the worst movie of their career . |
| 7 | Suppose you 're about to make the last payment on your mortgage . |
| 8 | Off the field , Celtic are playing down weekend speculation that they 're about to announce the first instalment of finance for the Cambuslang stadium development . |
| 9 | We 're about to begin the long hike out to the rim . |
| 10 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 11 | The precise role of the T-cells requires definition , and further studies are underway to characterise the other cells present in diseased issue ( eg , macrophages and their interactions with lymphocytes ) . |
| 12 | Because metering would be such a major change , trials are underway to assess the likely benefits and costs . |
| 13 | Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead . |
| 14 | And it wo n't just be the pilots who are out to make the best landings . |
| 15 | Moreover , the constant updating of such a huge work by repeated republication in revised form would be merely to perpetuate the inherent inadequacies of the old system . |
| 16 | Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list . |
| 17 | The aim of a second investigation would be not to repeat the first one but to improve on it . |
| 18 | As we have already remarked , practice to date seems to be not to follow the restrictive approach , apparently from fear that this will simply invite challenge to the use of the Optional Procedure by the defender . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm away to catch the last tram , ’ she smiled . |
| 20 | Fair enough , but some were saying they could nt pass the 11+ exams : - ) O'Leary should be back to provide the lacking experience . |
| 21 | I 'm here to defend the royal family . |
| 22 | As we have seen , Dicey recognized that , in this social context , the function of the academic lawyer could not be simply to venerate the ancient constitution . |
| 23 | And when the ball does go in , Ince and Palmer must be there to stop the Turkish midfield playing it out from knockdowns and clearances . |
| 24 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 25 | Sir , — When the local fox hunts are just a memory who will be there to control the ever-increasing fox population ? |
| 26 | Luciano Pavarotti will be there to strike the right note for an occasion of speeches , publicity films and general hype that is costing £1 million and will be seen by a worldwide television audience of 500 million . |
| 27 | If you are going to pay candidates ' travelling expenses one of the advance preparations will be to organize these beforehand , ensuring there is cash available or that someone will be there to sign the necessary cheque . |
| 28 | Green concerns may well be about to travel the same route . |
| 29 | BT has a 60% stake in Cellnet and observers reckon it could be about to buy the remaining 40% held by Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services . |
| 30 | Largely unprotected and little understood , these populations of small whales need immediate investigation and protection if we are n't to repeat the dreadful and potentially catastrophic mistakes we 've already made with large whales . |