Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 32 | Current policy seems to be to ‘ go soft ’ on the addicts and concentrate on catching the dealers , yet without customers the dealers would go out of business . |
| 33 | Comparing the work I have done here to that produced in other areas of England and Wales this seems to be to be a perceptive observation , which is verified by Laura Knight : ‘ But whatever the month , and whatever the time of day , the beauty of the landscape for the painter in the West Midlands would be hard to beat . |
| 34 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 35 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |
| 36 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 37 | Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds . |
| 38 | How long was Errol Flynn 's nob reputed to be to the nearest inch ? |
| 39 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 40 | It is believed to be to a design by Il Pellegrini , although its actual construction was not until a century after the architect 's death . |
| 41 | Palestine was meant to be to the south , beyond Golan , on the West Bank , in Gaza , in Israel itself . |
| 42 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 43 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |
| 44 | Visits to Lille and visits from such important people as the Duke of Gloucester , the C-in-C , Lord Gort , and the Divisional Commander , a little Major-General called Montgomery who did n't seem to be to the liking of the younger officers . |
| 45 | or " click mill " would seem to be to one at Balmavicar ( Ballyvicar ? ) and windmills represented only by Loch a Mhuilinn-Ghaoith-Windmill Loch . |
| 46 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 47 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 48 | ‘ I am the type who likes to be to be on the training ground every day . ’ |
| 49 | Day 1 was planned to be to Biarritz via Jersey and La Rochelle , with Day 2 to Santiago via Asturias on the north coast of Spain . |
| 50 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 51 | They have to be to each other what Minny and I are . |
| 52 | The entire carboxy terminal half of the proteins , from aa 400 to the end , is predicted to be to be very hydrophilic ( 22 , 30 ) . |
| 53 | You who refuse to be to be slaves . |
| 54 | Thus , the best way of proving anything that the other side will not agree to is to be prepared to call the witness to give evidence about it at trial . |