Example sentences of "[det] [ex0] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 2 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 3 | Structuralist linguists retaliate to the generative linguist 's claim for competence over performance with the argument ‘ An automatic language-processing system which works adequately for competent language but fails on performance is a futile system , because all there is to be processed is performance . ’ |
| 4 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 5 | I 'm sure you 've seen all there is to be seen . ’ |
| 6 | This time the ‘ Oh ’ seemed all there was to be said . |
| 7 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 8 | It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain . |