Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main role of the therapist at this stage will be to listen and to further his assessment by careful questioning . |
| 2 | This woman had been to jail because of her beliefs . |
| 3 | If one were to suggest that in order to learn French we should first practise and watch sentences such as ‘ He makes of the sun ’ in order to prepare the way for the sentence ‘ Il fait du soleil ’ , it would be ridiculed by modern language theorists . |
| 4 | And so if you were to use that at night and then put a bit of lavender on it is really nice . |
| 5 | Then , of course , if Rose Pratt were to leave because of her rheumatics , and she being forty-five , there was a chance that Jane would move upwards . |
| 6 | But if that movement were to succeed and in so doing carry him to power , he promised a systematic cruelty or slaughter as precise , impersonal and ineluctable as a quadratic equation . |
| 7 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 8 | This is to certify that in my opinion you are unfit to : work/join the Army/propagate your species . |
| 9 | It 's to know that in advance because I think they then have a practical contribution to make . |
| 10 | The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) . |
| 11 | Rather , it is to indicate that in this particular instance , underfunding is an accurate reflection of the second-class status that computer-assisted humanities research and teaching have in this country . |
| 12 | A useful way to understand this is to remember that in a domestic context UK banks do not need to keep operational balances at the Bank of England equal to the total value of their deposits , just in case they are withdrawn . |
| 13 | All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes . |
| 14 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 15 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 16 | The other aim is to suggest that in order to understand ‘ how teachers teach the unteachable ’ one must recognize the manner in which they are engaged in managing a delicate balance of perceptions — that they be like and unlike schools . |
| 17 | It arises from the failure of the lecturer to tell the class in advance what he is to discuss and from the student thus being unable to read in advance the relevant pages in the textbooks . |
| 18 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 19 | So what we need to do is to recognise that as a witness of that , of the way in which we work , because it is . |
| 20 | A better solution to female patients being hostile to middle aged male obstetricians , of course , is to ensure that in the coming generation of doctors 87% of obstetric consultants are female . |
| 21 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |
| 22 | A different way of questioning the justification of corporate power in terms of wealth maximisation is to argue that at least beyond a certain level of prosperity , increases in wealth do not compensate for , can not be traded-off against , the accumulation of power . |
| 23 | A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal . |
| 24 | Who 's to say that in those days there was nt as much hype/stereotyping and bullshit as there is today ? ? |
| 25 | To say of two linguistic expressions that they have the " same meaning " , at best , is to say that under the same sort of conditions , they can be used in the same way , to the same effect . |
| 26 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 27 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 28 | Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date . |
| 29 | That is to say that in reality , effort is not applied exclusively to the various phases in turn . |
| 30 | That is to say that in a real life movie , the director would say to Kevin Costner ‘ Start walking here , Kev , darling , and walk over to the chair . |