Example sentences of "be to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what it would be interesting to would be to using the |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The prospect of environmental catastrophe has shown us how fragile life is , how inter-dependent we all are , how difficult it is going to be to find our way out — and how important ideas are going to be to finding it . |
| 4 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 5 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |