Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [is] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly if the property recovered or preserved is to be used as a home for the assisted person or her dependants enforcement of the charge can also be postponed . |
| 2 | Shopping was to them what the rumba and singing is to Brazilians . |
| 3 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 4 | What is interesting here , however , is that the word its ( the possessive pronoun , meaning " belonging to it " ) is not built by taking it and adding 's to it . |
| 5 | So it is definitely possible to distinguish between faith , doubt and unbelief in theory ( to believe is to be in one mind , to disbelieve is to be in another and to doubt is to be in two minds ) . |