Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community . |
| 32 | Its complement was to rise from the initial 3,000 to 4,200 ( ie full peacetime strength ) one year later . |
| 33 | The aim of the research was to prepare for the development of a full proposal on ‘ The Management of Technical Uncertainty ’ . |
| 34 | It was indeed the attacks in Cartwright 's books which Hooker was to take as the starting point for his defence of the Church . |
| 35 | In the coming months and years the question of castles was to remain in the forefront of everyone 's mind . |
| 36 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 37 | The intention was to introduce by the end of 1993 a system , TAURUS , complementing TALISMAN , whereby , once a bargain in fully-paid listed securities was struck , the buyer would become , and the seller , in respect of the shares sold , would cease to be , a member and shareholder . |
| 38 | Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around . |
| 39 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 40 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 41 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 42 | The purpose of the judicial review was to dispose of the district judge 's order so as to permit the substitution by the reviewing court of a different order , still directed to the way in which the matter should proceed . |
| 43 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 44 | But that must change on Wednesday if England are to win by the sort of margin that will enhance their hopes of World Cup qualification . |
| 45 | IRELAND are to resign from the Cricket Council , in order to seek associate membership of ICC . |
| 46 | the end cha , the end of the chapter said that if parents were to re-take on the role of educating and disciplining children within the home |
| 47 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 48 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 49 | Somewhat ironically , given the role bankers were to play in the conspiracy theory , she was the daughter of a director of Barclay 's Bank . |
| 50 | If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world . |
| 51 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 52 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 53 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 54 | One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ . |
| 55 | One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses . |
| 56 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 57 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 58 | Chola was carrying a basket with the hoes and a rug , some ro is to eat in the course of the day and a bronze pot for fetching water from the spring . |
| 59 | It is untrue that the only way to improve spelling is to return to the principle of ‘ spelling as you speak ’ based on phonemics . |
| 60 | The reason falls into two parts : the first relates to savings and the second is to do with the nature of . |