Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 3 | Actor Robert Englund is to return in a seventh Nightmare on Elm Street film next year , despite moguls vowing Freddy 's Dead : The Final Nightmare was the last . |
| 4 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 5 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 6 | Scottish prison officers are to strike for the first time in their history on November the fifth . |
| 7 | Their great day is to dawn in the next generation , for the novel becomes the great art form of the nineteenth century , from Los Angeles to New York , from London and Edinburgh to Moscow and Budapest . |
| 8 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |
| 9 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 10 | As Christine de Pisan was to show in the first quarter of the century , the use of artillery for defensive purposes was now regarded as necessary and normal . |
| 11 | This level of trade was to continue throughout the next fifteen years with the exception of 1927 the year of the general strike when only 2.7 million tons was handled . |
| 12 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
| 13 | The whole secret is to get over the first round and then improve your display for the next game . ’ |
| 14 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 15 | In this context , the major challenge for Marxism became how to explain Marxism 's ‘ detour ’ from itself , a question on which Sartre 's project was to founder in the second volume of the Critique of Dialectical Reason . |
| 16 | This growth was to continue into the 20th century ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | The technique is to allow through the first impressions that come to you . |
| 18 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 19 | London is to feature as the next Spotlight in the September edition of Medau News and London teachers are asked to submit suggestions to Molly Hammond by 30th May at the latest . |
| 20 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 21 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 22 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 23 | Its theme of ‘ the disintegration of African social life ’ pointed to a concept of applied anthropology — ‘ a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa ’ — which Smith was to advocate over the next two decades . |
| 24 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |