Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless someone has a better solution , can I ask the many thousands of WCM readers who are as infuriated as I am to write and complain to the BBC 's Head Programme Scheduler . |
| 2 | For many people this was the last time they were to see or speak to him and they are left with a good memory and a triumphant one . |
| 3 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 4 | The task for the journalist and broadcaster is to recognise and conform to the valuable discipline of the law , while at the same time understanding it sufficiently to be able to call the bluff of those who seek to exploit it to suppress important truths . |
| 5 | PART OF the City of Birmingham Touring Opera 's brief is to involve and appeal to a broad community . |
| 6 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 7 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 8 | Archimedes became ‘ that divine man ’ and Galileo saw in Euclid the wonder of geometry , especially in the work on ratios , which Galileo was to expand and use to its limit later . |
| 9 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |