Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's anointing remains in you , his spirit teaches you , you 're to remain in the spirit In other words living in Christ . |
| 2 | Rules are arbitrary in character and are to do with the manner in which people choose between alternative modes of conduct . |
| 3 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 4 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 5 | His profession is to profit from the person in the street . |
| 6 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |
| 7 | The second point that could cause confusion on the printouts is to do with the way in which stitches are to be cast on or off , increased or decreased and so on . |
| 8 | What I want to do , in this second part of my lecture , is to illustrate in the field in which I have been myself involved — literature and stylistics — the kind of projects which have been attempted and the limited success which has been achieved . |
| 9 | I mean is n't it really using a computer is merely a facilitator , like using a car is a simple way of transport , and therefore whether or not it facilitates is nothing to do with the system itself , it 's to do with the way in which it 's used . |
| 10 | It is not clear how claim ( c ) is to interact with the claim in the earlier part of his article that prenominal position is reserved for characteristic ( as opposed to occasion ) adjectives . |
| 11 | Experts say the recession is to blame for the rise in office crime as workers try to top up their income . |
| 12 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 13 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 14 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 15 | And now Vincent could realise another of his dreams , which was to draw from the nude in heated premises . |
| 16 | My very first act — since one has to begin somewhere — was to decide upon the form in which I would report to you . |
| 17 | The project , therefore , was to return to the enlightenment in the wake of fascism , to excise the forms of instrumental rationality that had produced this self-defeating and , ironically , irrational dialectical structure of domination , and to redefine reason and the forms of identity thinking that had defined the individual simply as an indistinguishable element in the collective . |
| 18 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 19 | In instances where the corpse was to travel to the grave in just a winding-sheet , either palled on the bier or via the parish coffin , one does wonder whether there was an unwritten code that the sheet chosen be one of the best from the linen cupboard , or if the sheet upon which the person died sufficed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |