Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 2 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 3 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 4 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 5 | The traditional role of mother and baby units in psychiatry has been to treat acute postpartum mental illness without separating the mother from the infant . |
| 6 | POLICE in Hampshire are to issue on-the-spot fines to motorists who carry bikes fixed to their car boots and obscure the number plate of the vehicle . |
| 7 | The two basic strategies for reducing smoking related disease are to support existing smokers in giving up and to dissuade young people from starting . |
| 8 | These should be about 23 cm ( 9 in ) deep and of similar width if they are to accommodate aquatic planting baskets properly . |
| 9 | It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society . |
| 10 | The identification of the cause of discomfort is critical if nurses are to promote patient ease and comfort . |
| 11 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 12 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 13 | ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress . |
| 14 | ‘ You are to report direct to your strike-team leader , Nils Borden , in the Spiderglass Hotel in Vienna , Earth . |
| 15 | Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold . |
| 16 | I believe that an element of local knowledge is essential if you are to acquire maximum enjoyment from this volume . |
| 17 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 18 | One of the most important historic tasks of transnational capitalism has been to include various previously excluded groups within its realm of influence . |
| 19 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 20 | Clearly , profit-related pay is extremely important if we are to stimulate higher-quality jobs , greater commitment to employment and more jobs . |
| 21 | bodies if they are to remain recognised |
| 22 | These real difficulties of man-power utilisation are such as to force many organisations to become larger and larger if they are to remain economic . |
| 23 | But the experience is one Mr Lang and his ministerial colleagues could have done without if his plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are to remain credible . |
| 24 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 25 | The Defence Secretary has announced that the Royal dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth are to remain open . |
| 26 | For companies need protection from potential catastrophe if they are to remain productive , even in business . |
| 27 | ‘ The civilised world must protect them if we are to remain civilised . |
| 28 | It is , therefore , essential that the developer obtains the necessary easement or rights of way from the respective owners , when access roads are to remain unadopted . |
| 29 | It is not necessary because section 6(3) ( b ) is capable of being given full effect without any such implication : it applies where a school is under-subscribed and yet seeks to refuse certain applicants who have expressed a preference for that school : Parliament has indicated that if spaces are to remain unfilled because of admission criteria such criteria have to be agreed with the local education authority . |
| 30 | If they are to remain empty at any particular time short-held leases could be used so that the barracks could be used for local housing rather than stay vacant . |