Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 2 | Carnelian 's scheme could n't have been to expose Jaq to whatever type of recycling of human bodies occurred in that underworld . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , my first efforts must be to attract attention to myself and have myself removed from this common Bedlam in which I was shut . |
| 4 | At least thirty minutes would have to be allocated to each child , if they were to do justice to their abilities , and this meant about fifteen hours for a class of thirty . |
| 5 | But if Fen were in love with her — if he were to make love to her again , the way he had last night … if he were to ask her … |
| 6 | The last time she had been here had been to say good-bye to her great-aunt before she went off to America . |
| 7 | By their preaching and writing , the apostles showed that they had finally grasped Jesus ' point that the Bible 's main practical purpose is to draw people to himself as their Saviour . |
| 8 | The first is to draw attention to what I and others believe to be clear injustices in the way in which he was treated before his death and the second is to expose the fact that the injustices faced by Mr. Docherty affect many others in similar circumstances , and are a direct consequence of Government policy . |
| 9 | The role of premises is to throw light on a subject ; the role of evidences is to give weight to it . |
| 10 | For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents . |
| 11 | An excellent strategy is to convey understanding to your child or teenager by bearing in mind the two-way nature of good communication between adults . |
| 12 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 13 | Daphne 's response to this remembrance is to pledge obedience to her mother 's memory by forgetting Cynthio and embracing her sister shepherdesses . |
| 14 | SWEDEN is to prevent entries to its two European Tour events from players who play on this winter 's Sunshine Tour in South Africa . |
| 15 | Coupled with this factual thesis is the full-blooded relativist view that there are only these different views ; that to talk about morality is to make reference to them ; and that there is no fact-of-the-matter ; no independent concept of right and wrong ; of good and bad ; of duty or responsibility . |
| 16 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 17 | Two days before Arrese 's Valladolid speech , France announced that it was to grant independence to its protectorate in Morocco . |
| 18 | The most obvious effect was to constrain societies to their traditional role of lending for house purchase . |
| 19 | New disciplining agents were at work in them , and a new kind of politics was to give outlet to their grievances . |
| 20 | Jesus clearly believed that the main aim of the ( Old Testament ) scriptures was to point people to himself ; which means in practice ( if we add Luke 's evidence to John 's ) , that through repentance and faith men and women should find the forgiveness and life which he had died and risen to make possible for them . |
| 21 | As he was already behind in mastering the basic skills which lay the foundation for all further work , he felt that Balbinder needed a lot of help if he was to do justice to his abilities . |
| 22 | Tweed was unable to argue with her — it was too public and the last thing he wanted was to draw attention to himself . |
| 23 | Earlier this week Fryer , while on home leave from prison , went missing , saying it was to draw attention to his case . |
| 24 | Steele 's starting point was that slaves as much as all other men were subject to the law of human behaviour which said that conduct could be modified through the deployment of rewards and punishments ; the point of his experiment was to offer rewards to his slaves for defined tasks when in the past they had primarily experienced punishment . |
| 25 | He was to have access to his daughter whenever possible . |
| 26 | He was raining kicks into all the softer bits of the body chosen by the being who was to bring death to our world . |
| 27 | His ideal was to bring men to their maximum efficiency in relation to technology . |