Example sentences of "be to " in BNC.

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61 If you need to see me you know where I 'm to be found .
62 ’ My leftie grandchildren think I 'm to the right of Genghis Khan , but I really believe that you have to show people you ca n't do this sort of thing and get away with it , ’ she says .
63 No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go .
64 Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage .
65 The first punch may be to the face , so attention is focused there .
66 But whatever the size of your company and whatever business you are in , I believe it will be to your benefit to read this booklet and act upon its recommendations .
67 And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation .
68 For example , if you have the situation where you want to put two occasionally-used machines quite close to one another , it may be to your advantage that their heights are exactly the same so the job can run across both tables .
69 But this will be to no avail if the choreographer is attempting to tell a story and does not have expert advice from musicians of the calibre of Edwin Evans , Constant Lambert and John Lanchbery .
70 Ideally conversion could be to 100Hz to reduce risk .
71 The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument .
72 One possible application of the proposals would be to the Civil Aviation Authority , which desperately needs new capital to deal with the problems of air traffic congestion in Europe .
73 ‘ Our job will be to be flexible .
74 Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production .
75 John Ellis , general secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association , which has members employed by the Government 's statistical services , said : ‘ Anything that improves the quality of statistics , which this country is very good at getting wrong , particularly on transport and the economy , would be to the benefit of the whole country . ’
76 Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles .
77 The sooner Chris Woods , if fit , or David Seaman is brought in , the closer England will be to having an insurance policy should misfortune befall the great keeper , as in the infamous case of Gordon Banks in 1970 .
78 Thanks be to God for being what He is , for showing Himself to me …
79 A positive interaction with these characteristics can only be to the benefit of artists and their followers alike .
80 The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference .
81 He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day .
82 For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants .
83 ‘ Not a thing in the wide world , thanks be to God . ’
84 The trips will be to the Clare Lakelands and Shannon .
85 The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa .
86 In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible .
87 Be-1 , Pao and S-Cargo , made in small volumes and sold in Japan at premiums over the Micra model on which they are based , may not be to everyone 's taste .
88 Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others …
89 ‘ If there 's any cruelty involved , ’ Hughes says , ‘ it would be to the foxes , not to the sheep .
90 First call could be to the CHP Association , an independent body which will send lists of member companies and general information .
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