Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 2 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 3 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |
| 4 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 5 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 6 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 7 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 8 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 9 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 10 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 11 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 12 | You must have been to ‘ un cafe ’ , or to ‘ le cinema ’ , or watched ‘ le sport ’ on ‘ la têlêvision ’ . |
| 13 | The real question that the hon. Gentleman should put is to his own party : how will it keep tax and spending plans going if it does not have the benefit of privatisation revenues ? |
| 14 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 15 | So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching |
| 16 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 18 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 19 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 20 | I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous . |
| 21 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 22 | The problems that this could cause were to be demonstrated all too vividly in 1968 . |
| 23 | However convenient the conflict of love and honour may have been to Anthony Hope as the motive force of his books , he treated it seriously within their emotional climate . |
| 24 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 25 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 26 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 27 | The colonial courts , despite their formal structure which was modelled on British lines , were far less alien to the average Sri Lankan than they would have been to the ordinary Englishman . |
| 28 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 29 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 30 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |