Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years . |
| 2 | Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory . |
| 3 | THE Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are to go on a major visit to the Caribbean next February and March . |
| 4 | CROWN prosecutors are to appeal against a lenient sentence imposed on a rapist whose victim died after the attack . |
| 5 | We apologise for the outspokenness of this letter , but it is felt that if we are to continue as a national organisation of good standing , we must put our house in order before it is too late . |
| 6 | DRIVERS in East Anglia are to benefit from a major increase in road maintenance investment in 1993/4 . |
| 7 | Clearly in this arid region with its brief period of insect food availability for raising young such assistance is vital if both sexes are to participate in a successful breeding ( Crook and Butterfield 1970 ) . |
| 8 | X/Open Co Ltd , Unix International and Japan 's Joint System Development Corp , a technical standards group , are to participate in a four-year project to research and develop technology for testing open systems software in Japan . |
| 9 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 10 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 11 | ONE of the most popular Liverpool 60s bands , The Dennisons , are to reform for a one-off tribute to their late bass guitarist , Terry ‘ Tex ’ Carson , who died of multiple sclerosis last year . |
| 12 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 13 | It 's difficult to be to comment on a hypothetical situation . |
| 14 | He kept thinking how nice it would be to lie in a hot bath and soak out the cold and the dirt . |
| 15 | Here I just want to concentrate on what may be required if we are to shift to a different mode of argumentation . |
| 16 | If services are to develop in a needs-led way , of course , such information is vital . |
| 17 | Whatever the reasons for these changes , be they because of a hostile government , new technology or the European dimension , we must respond and change if we are to survive as a creditable organization . |
| 18 | In July , McGovern , supported by Campbell Stephen , had openly stated the necessity of such a return if the ILP were to continue as a significant organization . |
| 19 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 20 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 21 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 22 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 23 | By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives . |
| 24 | Its main aims were to press for a new constitution based on a formal state treaty and to slow the moves towards a market economy . |
| 25 | MCC were to reel under a similar onslaught on the matter of South Africa . |
| 26 | Suppose we were to begin with a crude distinction of ‘ social nature ’ and ‘ social culture ’ , in which the latter were conceived in its narrow sense as representation rather than in the broad sense as symbol . |
| 27 | If we are to abide by a pure nominalism or particularism , we are forced into externalism , and this is vicious . |
| 28 | Eventually she had become resigned to a dull , passionless existence ; her husband had masked his indifference to her real feelings with elaborate public courtesies , and her only role outside of motherhood had been to act as a decorative hostess at his political functions . |
| 29 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 30 | The plan is to go into a neighbouring country … in this case Salisbury Plain … and evacuate civilians using soldiers to protect them . |