Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 3 | I mean it was a report it must have been to the member authorities , was it a progress report or deliberations ? |
| 4 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 'd have been to the Catholic service , had their sins forgiven from the week before , then started again . ’ |
| 7 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 8 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whatever I read would have been to the accompaniment of music — one of my three favourite composers , Beethoven , Mozart or Schubert — and a long drawn out glass or two of post-prandial port . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |