Example sentences of "[am/are] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 2 | POLICE in Hampshire are to issue on-the-spot fines to motorists who carry bikes fixed to their car boots and obscure the number plate of the vehicle . |
| 3 | The two basic strategies for reducing smoking related disease are to support existing smokers in giving up and to dissuade young people from starting . |
| 4 | These should be about 23 cm ( 9 in ) deep and of similar width if they are to accommodate aquatic planting baskets properly . |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society . |
| 6 | The identification of the cause of discomfort is critical if nurses are to promote patient ease and comfort . |
| 7 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 8 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 9 | ‘ You are to report direct to your strike-team leader , Nils Borden , in the Spiderglass Hotel in Vienna , Earth . |
| 10 | I believe that an element of local knowledge is essential if you are to acquire maximum enjoyment from this volume . |
| 11 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 12 | Clearly , profit-related pay is extremely important if we are to stimulate higher-quality jobs , greater commitment to employment and more jobs . |
| 13 | bodies if they are to remain recognised |
| 14 | These real difficulties of man-power utilisation are such as to force many organisations to become larger and larger if they are to remain economic . |
| 15 | But the experience is one Mr Lang and his ministerial colleagues could have done without if his plans for a radical shake-up of the local government system are to remain credible . |
| 16 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 17 | The Defence Secretary has announced that the Royal dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth are to remain open . |
| 18 | For companies need protection from potential catastrophe if they are to remain productive , even in business . |
| 19 | ‘ The civilised world must protect them if we are to remain civilised . |
| 20 | It is , therefore , essential that the developer obtains the necessary easement or rights of way from the respective owners , when access roads are to remain unadopted . |
| 21 | It is not necessary because section 6(3) ( b ) is capable of being given full effect without any such implication : it applies where a school is under-subscribed and yet seeks to refuse certain applicants who have expressed a preference for that school : Parliament has indicated that if spaces are to remain unfilled because of admission criteria such criteria have to be agreed with the local education authority . |
| 22 | If they are to remain empty at any particular time short-held leases could be used so that the barracks could be used for local housing rather than stay vacant . |
| 23 | Taxi licence fees in Hartlepool are to remain unchanged , councillors have decided . |
| 24 | But the national clearinghouses , if they are to remain national services , need much more substantial funding . |
| 25 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 26 | And I think it is , we would all agree , that it is essential that an agreement which is acceptable to all sides is reached , and I 'm sure that it 's going to be because let us not forget that we 're not in business to remain in perpetual opposition if we are to achieve proper rights for employees , which have been so reduced by the Conservatives if we are to save the welfare state , which is now so under threat if we are to obtain decent health and education services , which are also under threat if we are to create a strong economy and a strong recovery which provides the jobs which we so desperately need then we must win power ! |
| 27 | Many constitutional authorities , like the New Right , seem to be keener on securing economic freedoms for particular individuals than they are to secure broad social freedoms for the mass of the population against the freedoms of the few . |
| 28 | The effects of fire are to increase light intensity at the ground , affecting germination but also the fauna and flora of the soil . |
| 29 | The circle is squared with the statement that ‘ environmental controls are vital to the acceptability of opencast coal working and must be adhered to if sites are to meet current environmental standards ’ . |
| 30 | Flexible friend FOOTBALL : MPs are to meet National Heritage Secretary David Mellor to seek ‘ a show of flexibility ’ over the implementation of the Taylor Report . |