Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 2 | I think that he 'd reached a stage in his life where he was to become less community minded and more geared toward the fulfilment of his own career . ’ |
| 3 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
| 4 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 5 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 6 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 7 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 8 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 9 | It is noticeable that managements are more willing to give responsibility to the project leader than they are to delegate commensurate authority . |
| 10 | Now , it appears that they are to take great pride in the fact that we are spending more on public services , and it is right to acknowledge that . |
| 11 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 12 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
| 13 | Norway has confirmed that it is to resume scientific whaling in April and commercial whaling in May or June [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 14 | ‘ We believe it is no more difficult , no more expensive and no more labour intensive to provide healthy , nutritious , tasty , well-presented food than it is to provide unhealthy food . |
| 15 | Mendès-France thereby demonstrated that it was more important to him to keep the French army free from supranational controls than it was to prevent German rearmament . |
| 16 | Castle , who announced earlier this week that he is to quit full-time tennis , was given a stiff examination by the British number two from Southampton . |
| 17 | He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction . |
| 18 | But it was on his return to the West Coast that he was to suffer most discomfiture . |
| 19 | I do this because it was in the period of the church fathers that what was to become orthodox Christology was worked out . |
| 20 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 21 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 22 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 23 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 24 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 25 | If I were to seek one word to describe the quality of these works of art many by famous names , many by local artists to whom the purchase brought rare encouragement — I should say that they are alive . |
| 26 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 27 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 28 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 29 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 30 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |