Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 2 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 3 | ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’ |
| 4 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 5 | If they were to report it to the company the whole crew could lose their jobs . ’ |
| 6 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 7 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 8 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 9 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 10 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 11 | As this is not a book on careers in advertising , the best thing I can do to give you an idea of the sort of people you might conceivably find in an agency is to refer you to the books by Norman Hart and Felicity Taylor ( see page 232 ) which describe them all very comprehensively . |
| 12 | Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 13 | Wearing a tidy black suit , Palance throws his carpetbag negligently into the back of Jeff Chandler 's buggy which is to take him to the reservation . |
| 14 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 15 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |
| 16 | The key to impressing Mum and Auntie Jean , and the best way to keep their tongues off the risible subject of my loin-cloth , which inevitably had them quaking with laughter , was to introduce them to the actors afterwards , telling them which sit-coms and police programmes they 'd seen them in . |