Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts before them are to do with people dying and being buried or cremated . |
| 2 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 3 | Staff at Oxford Regional health Authority will now have to wait and see how many of them are to keep their jobs . |
| 4 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 5 | Eyes sparkling , Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence and I are to spend the whole day together . ’ |
| 6 | Well Jim and I are to start with to get the er |
| 7 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 8 | ’ 'T IS glad I am to 'ear it , me lord , ’ came the mocking response . |
| 9 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 10 | In a letter ‘ On her Mopsus ’ Leapor writes : ‘ I am to confess , that I have drawn my own Picture in many Places where I have described this unlucky Hero ’ [ ML , 2 , 316 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 12 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
| 13 | I am to finish my training here in Milan . |
| 14 | ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments . |
| 15 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 16 | ‘ But , oh , Tilly … you do n't know how glad I am to see you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't tell you how pleased I am to see you ! |
| 19 | ‘ I was just thinking how glad I am to see you , ’ she said candidly . |
| 20 | If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment . |
| 21 | PAMELA : [ moving behind the line of chairs ] Here is the bar at which I am to take my trial . |
| 22 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 23 | If I am to do what you asked , he wrote , you will have to co-operate . |
| 24 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 25 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 26 | Now tell me what I am to do with you . |
| 27 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 28 | I am to commence paying this moment ? |
| 29 | I am to go away shortly , on a convalescent holiday . ’ |
| 30 | Tomorrow I am to go to Professor Dachauer at the Academy at 11.00 with Dr Viola . |