Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] be to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft .
3 I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous .
4 I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time .
5 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 .
6 " Then you must have been to Paris before . "
7 You must have been to ‘ un cafe ’ , or to ‘ le cinema ’ , or watched ‘ le sport ’ on ‘ la têlêvision ’ .
8 ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat .
9 But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature …
10 All you can do is to KILL the offending BBCBASIC(Z80) instantiation .
11 The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off .
12 What you can expect is to be asked to justify your approach to nursing problems .
13 ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square .
14 So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching
15 therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need .
16 They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age .
20 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 .
21 He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender .
22 He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before .
23 I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ?
24 I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party
25 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 .
26 He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot .
27 ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be .
28 My Troop — 10th Leith ( Balfour Melville ) — frequently marched with the rest of the Edinburgh District Scouts and I found the flag holster a great comfort — as it would have been to " Sister Anna " — since , in the song , she only had a " banner-carrying navel " as I recall .
29 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 .
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