Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bless our work bless us that all we do and say may be to your glory and for the sake of your kingdom guide us |
| 2 | He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents . |
| 3 | All that could be agreed would be to loan trained men for a specific operation . |
| 4 | ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA . |
| 5 | I am perfectly prepared to accept six set back , the thing to do would be to probably to separate the six , and six and a new seven . |
| 6 | Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are : |
| 7 | But to be paid for playing — well , that 's something that I do n't think would be to the overall benefit of the games . ’ |
| 8 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine replied : ‘ The only phone calls Mr Major will make will be to 20 of his colleagues , inviting them to join his government and prepare the Queen 's Speech , which is clearly , in outline , to continue the reforms that are necessary in this country to continue to give us firm leadership and government . ’ |
| 10 | Say we won a lot of money first thing I do would be to , with his sisters . |
| 11 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |