Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 2 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 3 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 4 | all quantities were to alter by the same factor from 1976 to 1981 , or |
| 5 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 6 | THREE British embassies are to open in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia , the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , announced last night . |
| 7 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 8 | Elizabeth was to return to the same church for her own wedding five years later ; she and young Benjamin Titford were married there on 24 January 1808 . |
| 9 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |