Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 2 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 3 | and I would do it is to go during the day , knock on somebody 's door and pretend I 'm selling something . |
| 4 | If they are , the best way they can show it is to do something decisive about their economy . |
| 5 | So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe . |