Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important factor to remember is to think or allow . |
| 2 | In de Manian parlance , to generalise is to conflate and to totalise , and this means not only crossing but negating the boundaries between language and metalanguage , literature and criticism , and literature and non-literature . |
| 3 | The common response of a rat or mouse to stress is to freeze and become immobile . |
| 4 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 5 | So effectively what would happen all our T ratios right would be very small cos the standard area would be very large , but do n't worry too much about these ecometric problems what I want you to do is to appreciate that estimating a supply response model right , can cause problems unless we do something about it . |
| 6 | As the author says , ‘ All the would-be garden painter has to do is to stop and look . ’ |
| 7 | Always , the best thing to do is to run and shout for help , before attempting anything else . |
| 8 | What we need to do is to show that withholding this acknowledgement is neither arbitrary nor unjust ; we have to ask , does her being demand it . |
| 9 | So what I 've got to do is to try and get down to that , but do I actually stop the mallet dead when it , as it hits the blue , because if , I do n't wan na move the blue ball , but , if , if I was to play it like that it would be an obvious crush the ball into the mallet . |
| 10 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 11 | The last thing they wish to do is to squash and destroy a child 's individuality . |
| 12 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 13 | One puzzling decision for a critic to make is to decide whether to isolate any one artist as the leading figure of the group . |
| 14 | Confronted with such a situation , with no sure indication as to how , if at all , a satisfactory clarification of particular identity might be found , we might be tempted to think that the best course to follow is to try and see if we can make do without relying on this awkward and intractable concept . |