Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [be] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose . |
| 2 | Their function was to reoccupy areas evacuated by the French and impose a patriot terror , bullying the population into resistance . |
| 3 | But when they reached the implementation stage , in which their orientation was to concrete tasks and the skills required of them were chiefly technical , then they became more directive and used client participation less . |
| 4 | The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away . |
| 5 | Parties on the extreme right have nothing to gain in electoral terms from such antisemitism : their appeal is to ethnocentric fears of groups other than Jews . |
| 6 | Your comparison is to Latin America , when the most direct precedent is for the debtors of sub-Saharan Africa . |