Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has to be to the long-term benefit of the profession and of the wider community . |
| 2 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 3 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 4 | Obvious song has to be to the old Guantalamera ( ? ) one , which is usually turned into the ‘ One Rodney Wallace , there 's only one etc . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 6 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 7 | It tends to be to be for local production rather than for export . |
| 8 | The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa . |
| 9 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 10 | Current policy seems to be to ‘ go soft ’ on the addicts and concentrate on catching the dealers , yet without customers the dealers would go out of business . |
| 11 | Comparing the work I have done here to that produced in other areas of England and Wales this seems to be to be a perceptive observation , which is verified by Laura Knight : ‘ But whatever the month , and whatever the time of day , the beauty of the landscape for the painter in the West Midlands would be hard to beat . |
| 12 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 13 | Thus the percentage of the poll gained by UUUC was again over 50% in the third election within fifteen months and the result of the election suggests again that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland will not have an institutionalised Irish dimension and that they are profoundly suspicious of any party which is prepared to share power with those whose explicit or implicit aim seems to be to " destroy the state " . |
| 14 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 15 | Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds . |
| 16 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 17 | ‘ I am the type who likes to be to be on the training ground every day . ’ |