Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] " 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 | The second consideration is that students require a degree of intellectual space if they are properly to develop their own intellectual maturity . |
| 3 | Modern agricultural practices are mostly to blame , it seems . |
| 4 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
| 5 | The Lac d'Aumar and its satellite , the Lac d'Aubert , which are on and up from the Lac d'Oredon , are somewhere to spend the day . |
| 6 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 7 | His first decision had been only to take on older parts . |
| 8 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 9 | If your tactics are basically to run straight towards the enemy and hit him hard then a bolt thrower is n't really going to do you any good . |
| 10 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 11 | On Dec. 4 , 1991 , Valverde had given to the parliamentary commission on industry a detailed exposition of Renfe 's role in the affair , which he claimed had been merely to execute plans made by the Transport Ministry and the Autonomous Community ( local council ) of Madrid . |
| 12 | The landowning vested interests are entirely to blame , said Mr Reid . |
| 13 | Too many studios had been built in Britain during the production boom and , at a time when filmmakers were anyway keener than they had been hitherto to get out among ordinary people , they found they were no longer constrained by anxious accountants determined to maximize the use of studio space . |
| 14 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 15 | All of these recommendations , however , are only to give you a first taste of the scope of theatrical writing . |
| 16 | ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’ |
| 17 | Their differences are henceforth to take second place to the fight against Mr Hussein 's regime . |
| 18 | Paul could n't get over how his headmaster had been just to see him which made him feel very important which I thank you for . |
| 19 | Imagining the scene , poor Cindy hustled out to some waiting car with one of Cashman 's beefy paws grasping her arm like a manacle , Matthew tried to repress the thought that it might have been exactly to escape such strong-arm tactics that the beautiful Cindy had vanished , Matthew said , ‘ Why do you think she might have come here ? ’ |
| 20 | Gloucester rugby are back in league action tomorrow … the cherry and whites are away to orrell … last time out they beat Northampton so let's hope they 're on a winning roll … |
| 21 | Critics argued that the government itself had been largely to blame for the country 's economic problems . |
| 22 | The influence of the ‘ Annales ’ school of historical writing has been largely to place the study of war in the wider social , economic , and cultural background of the societies in which it was fought , to make war part of ‘ total ’ history . |
| 23 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the Department of Trade and Industry said : ‘ The changes are generally to make the advertisements clearer and easier to understand . |
| 25 | The public is not therefore antagonistic towards the mentally handicapped or especially afraid of them ; the emotional responses are generally to feel sorry for them and uncomfortable in their presence . |
| 26 | ‘ I am shortly to wed the daughter of the dauphin of France — thus to promote amity between our two countries . |
| 27 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 28 | She had been downstairs to make tea . |
| 29 | This can be carried out last thing at night , once the puppy has been outside to relieve itself . |
| 30 | In the Scottish tradition , following upon our Scottish theologian Dun Scottas although not representing him properly , it says that righteousness and moral items are just to do with the will of God . |