Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 2 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 3 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 4 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 5 | It just depends how difficult they are to weave and that that usually makes them you know , more expensive . |
| 6 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 7 | The naturalistic instinct has been to claim that mind somehow creates generality in a sense stronger than that which Aristotle allows ; it does not merely release generality from its potential state in matter , but fabricates it . |
| 8 | ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments . |
| 9 | Some jobs are to go when the Aberystwyth based family owned Cambrian News weekly newspaper places the paper 's printing contract with another company , possibly in Swansea . |
| 10 | Planning and management , if the political and economic will is there to implement them , can effect sustainable recreation and tourism which is essential if such industries are to continue as a source of income in developed and developing countries . |
| 11 | That may be too sudden a verdict , but if such tours are to continue and flourish then the background planning must be much more evenly balanced . |
| 12 | However , if these and the well-established universities and institutes are to continue and improve , what is required is an increase in support , not a major reduction . |
| 13 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 14 | In establishing its parameters for employment land provision of county in its eight constituent districts , the County Council 's intention has been to sustain and improve the economic wellbeing of the county by ensuring that continuous supply and a wide choice of sites can be made available . |
| 15 | Sir : The Institute of Statisticians ' role over the last 40 years has been to promote and protect the professional integrity of statisticians not only in this country but in the many others covered by our membership ( 'Wide support for impartial check on official statistics ' , 10 October ) . |
| 16 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 17 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 18 | Top administrators in many countries are also selected on the basis of educational credentials which are not apparently ‘ relevant ’ for the tasks they are to perform but which serve chiefly to exclude more uncouth potential rivals . |
| 19 | Addressing the Central Committee in April 1988 , the Comrade explained how this ‘ homogenization ’ was to be achieved : ‘ It is necessary to cut down to almost half the number of villages , establishing those that are to remain and their size ; all new buildings shall have to be erected only in these localities and we shall have to put other village areas to other purposes . ’ |
| 20 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 21 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 22 | Essentially the approach has been to try and identify the factors or characteristics that are associated with cases or situations of abuse , to assume that these are qualitatively different from the rest of the population and finally to hypothesize that these factors or characteristics in some way relate to the basic cause(s) of the problem . |
| 23 | The Sergeant walked past inspecting the kit , finding fault everywhere ; my mistake had been to try and conceal an unwashed pair of pants in my bag . |
| 24 | The official reaction to these changes ( more fully discussed in Chapter 9 ) has been to try and persuade farmers to adopt a more conservationist attitude , notably on unproductive land ( Leonard and Cobham , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | Prior to this riot , the Johnson administration 's strategy had been to try and eradicate the possibility of further disorder by tackling the chronic social problems highlighted by the riots . |
| 26 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 27 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
| 28 | Three men are to appear before Teesside magistrates on Wednesday charged in connection a with an armed robbery at a building society in Great Ayton . |
| 29 | This is the formal listing of what ads are to appear and where . |
| 30 | THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day . |