Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 2 | ‘ I really do n't know what good I am to anyone , ’ he sighed . |
| 3 | You can chuck me in the river , if you like , for all the good I am to meself . |
| 4 | You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of . |
| 5 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 6 | Every spring she was to be found visiting Fife . |
| 7 | Yet last Saturday they were to be found in Henley , rowing in trials together with up to a hundred other hopefuls from all over Britain . |
| 8 | For the underground it was to be almost unknown . |
| 9 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't know what a pleasure it is to me , Pip , ’ he said once , ‘ to be with my dear boy , in the open air . ’ |
| 11 | For Locke , then , personal identity consists in an identity of consciousness , and not in the identity of some substance whose essence it is to be conscious . |
| 12 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 13 | BENEFICIAL gets another chance at Goodwood today to demonstrate just what a loss he is to the Derby . |
| 14 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 15 | Some respondents to FRED 1 were concerned about exceptional items and the prominence they were to be given . |
| 16 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 17 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 18 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 19 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 20 | In spite of its obvious imitation of continental movements it was to be a profoundly British variant , with social and political roots in domestic problems . |
| 21 | ‘ Then what an unfeeling little brute you are to be sure . |
| 22 | In this society it follows that real talent goes unrewarded and unflinching purity of soul is automatically derided — on both these counts I am to be numbered among the punished , especially in regard to material goods and services , financial security , the trust and love of friendship , and the divinely counselled companionship of wife and family . |
| 23 | Even in places I been to hundreds of times . |
| 24 | Helping her to progress from the infant she was to the adult she will become is , I believe , the hardest task of parenting . |
| 25 | For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales . |
| 26 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 27 | On this evening we are to be entertained by a speaker who has investigated the life and time of William Shakespeare . |
| 28 | These asked for an end to the current system of zero-rating goods bound for export to other EC states in favour of levying VAT on all taxable goods sold , regardless of where in the Community they are to be sold . |
| 29 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 30 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |