Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 2 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 3 | Of course , there will be the process of introducing the council tax as there would be if we listened to the Labour party and introduced its tax . |
| 4 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 5 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 6 | I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other . |
| 7 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 8 | Well , you do n't tell two old people that a year and a bit too late you 're out to find what the sticking power of their son will be when it comes to the choicer interrogation techniques of KGB . |
| 9 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 10 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 11 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 12 | The other point I would make is that our company policy is that we write to every policy holder when we receive their policy . |
| 13 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 14 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 15 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 16 | However , what I would like to suggest is that you contribute to the Comment Column of our autumn edition . |
| 17 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 18 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 19 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 20 | The most likely understanding of this letter is that it relates to the subscription proposals . |
| 21 | And the reason for this , is that it belongs to a tradition , a fashion if you like , of writing , which went dramatically out of , out of fashion immediately after World War One . |
| 22 | The disadvantage of the latter is that it leads to an untidy looking diagram , although it will reveal lower terraces obscured by high ground in the foreground . |
| 23 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 24 | One argument in favour of the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment is that it amounts to a symbolic indication of the unique heinousness of murder . |
| 25 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 26 | The irony is that he referred to the mutual relevance of science and religion in at least three different respects , each of which magnified , rather than resolved , his difficulties . |
| 27 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe we 'll find out what it is if he goes to the hospital with us , ’ said David thoughtfully . |
| 29 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 30 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |