Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp . |
| 2 | To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern . ’ |
| 3 | Again the signal as to how to behave is given to drivers entering the area by remodelling junctions at the point of entry the before/after pair of illustrations show the treatment of the Konopkastrasse/main road intersection by reducing turning space , lowering light poles , emphasizing cycle lanes and planting greenery . |
| 4 | He further averred that the fact that he had not instructed Macfie & Alexander to send the offer to sell was known to the pursuer 's agents , Ferguson & Forster , since Mr Rae and Mr Alex D. Forster , the partners of Macfie & Alexander , were also the whole partners of Ferguson & Forster . |
| 5 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State referred to help being given to Russian scientists . |
| 7 | We knew from listening to the Allied radio that groups of partigiani , partisans , had secretly started to organize them selves , and young men of military age were advised to go into hiding to avoid being sent to Germany or conscripted . |
| 8 | To avoid being taken to the cleaners , Which ? suggested the best way of getting good results was to hire a firm recommended by word of mouth . |
| 9 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 10 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 11 | The death of Shio Tyiven , 26 , in Mount Vernon Hospital , Hillingdon , west London , yesterday will further focus attention on efforts by more than 3,000 Alevi Kurds to avoid being returned to Turkey , where they fear persecution . |
| 12 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 13 | At home she was very difficult to manage being given to severe tantrums involving screaming , followed by breath holding , throwing objects , overturning furniture , vomiting deliberately and lashing out at anyone within reach . |
| 14 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 15 | He has denied the decision to quit is linked to the Hagans case . |
| 16 | If you are faced with this , the only thing to do is to refuse to be drawn into any fruitless arguments , but stand firm in your resolve to leave when you feel you must , assuring her of your affection and concern for her and your intention to visit her again as soon as you can . |
| 17 | Obviously , the thing to do is to backwind to the point where the eating of the banana comes to an end and begin the next shot from there . |
| 18 | Anyway , all we have to do is to go to Florida and put the Thing on one of these going-up jets and it can do the rest , it says . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't want to go to the bank but what I want to do is to go to erm |
| 20 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 22 | What I 'd most like to do is go to the court to listen to what 's happening in the trial , but … . ’ |
| 23 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 24 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 25 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 26 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 27 | With the diameter of the sphere measured all you have to do is return to your school days to do a bit of geometry involving pi ( πD ) , which will give you the circumference . |
| 28 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 29 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 30 | All you 've got to do is chat to him about Tuscany and then twist the conversation around so you can slide in a few of my questions . ’ |