Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [modal v] be to " in BNC.
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1 | The only thing that would be worse than uncertainty would be to be given duff information . |
2 | The more time you have spent making notes from lectures or from books and rewriting and ordering those notes , the greater the importance that material will be to you . |
3 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
4 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
5 | To opt for nuclear power after Chernobyl would be to ‘ swap the prospect of a tragedy for the certainty of a catastrophe ’ . |