Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , he said , you 're to show your trust in the messenger , you never seal the envelope . |
| 2 | Above all , if we are to retain our position in the world league , all internal taxes must be designed so as not to adversely affect the price of our goods abroad . |
| 3 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 4 | Very few of those who were initially hostile to Eugénie were to change their opinion in the next 18 years , and in the case of some , only death ended an enduring aversion to the Empress . |
| 5 | The easiest way to ensure this is to leave your computer in the box ! |
| 6 | ACTRESS Suzie Aitchison , daughter of June Whitfield , is to keep her part in the play An Evening With Gary Lineker , when it goes on tour in February with an otherwise entirely new cast . |
| 7 | If Russell is to keep his place in the team he 'll have to prove himself as a batsman , to avoid being replaced by Stewart . |
| 8 | ‘ Overall , our aim is to protect our position in the British Isles . |
| 9 | Given that there has been no consensus at the academic level about the superior way to model the macroeconomy , the best way forward , with regard to the role of fiscal variables in the macro world , is to review their significance in the context of different schools of thought . |
| 10 | ( c ) Property held by husband and wife and a third party In circumstances where the husband is to convey his interest in the house to the wife , little needs to be done to the legal title other than for the husband to retire as a trustee ; the wife and third party ( possibly her mother ) will be left holding the legal estate , the beneficial interests being " behind the curtain " . |
| 11 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 12 | The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development . |
| 13 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 14 | To show his annoyance , Clive 's reaction was to leave his car in the car park that evening so that , whatever time his boss arrived the next day , he would think he was in . |
| 15 | The character of the design does not differ from that of contemporary marbles , but arms and hands free of the body ( cf. fig. 72 where , in spite of the struts , the hands are lost ) demonstrate the much greater tensile strength of bronze , which was to allow its use in the classical period for compositions which the Greek marble-worker would have shunned . |
| 16 | It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world . |
| 17 | To a large extent , the cabinet reshuffle of 1957 marked the point at which the Franco regime adopted the style which was to become its hallmark in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 18 | As miner in the Fife coalfields , he blew most of £7 a week on trips to Edinburgh to buy clothes , firstly the drape suits and the boot-lace ties of the old Teddy Boy style , then on signing for Raith Rovers , the more tutored continental clothing that was to become his hallmark in the '60s . |
| 19 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |