Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 2 | Here a failure calls for immediate action if you are to level out into normal flight and so prevent a stall . |
| 3 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 4 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 5 | In fact the hade of Fleming 's Vein is nowhere regular as the miners were to find out in due course . |
| 6 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 7 | By the Monday they were to shout down with peculiar virulence a similar although more long-winded question by Churchill . |
| 8 | It was not until after the accession of ‘ Bloody Mary ’ that Cornish church bells were to ring out in short-lived jubilation . |
| 9 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 10 | The Prince of Wales is to pull out of top-grade polo severing his sporting links with Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 11 | The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost . |
| 12 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |
| 13 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 14 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 15 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 16 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 18 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 19 | If a president is to break out of this situation , if he is to become a leader rather than a mere presider , he requires a reasonably united administrative branch , yet that minimum requirement is not easily come by . |
| 20 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 21 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 22 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 23 | My objective is to move on to fresh ground and not have to return to this particular patch . |
| 24 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 25 | The salt is to make up for any salt that you lose . |
| 26 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 27 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 28 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 29 | In addition Hungary was to switch over to hard-currency trading with all East European partners by 1991 , and between 1992 and 1994 the forint was to be made partially convertible . |
| 30 | Their one desire was to get out of this place ; but perhaps flight in the present circumstances might seem ungracious . |