Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABERDEEN fish processors are to go ahead with an export drive to France this week , in spite of attempts by French fishermen to block the import of supplies . |
| 2 | The more such errors appear in the learning process , the more likely they are to appear later in the use of the language . |
| 3 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 4 | at how we 're to go forward in the future an and improve the service |
| 5 | If we 're to go home through the fields by the shore — what did you call-them , Meg ? ’ |
| 6 | So what do parents require if they are to function effectively as a family ? |
| 7 | ‘ The normal courtesy would have been to phone ahead for an appointment . ’ |
| 8 | She let them pass , came to Hampstead tube station and thought what an adventure it would be to go home in a train . |
| 9 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 10 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 12 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 13 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 14 | The aim should be to move away from a subsistence standard of income in social security towards one that allows older people to participate more fully in society . |
| 15 | Once inside , their objective would be to make directly for the basement as speedily as possible , to seize and hold the Control Room , thus preventing the detonation of the fire bombs . |
| 16 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 17 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's more , this investment is needed if we are to stay ahead of the game . ’ |
| 19 | Further knowledge is necessary if historians are to learn more about the standard of living of ordinary workers . |
| 20 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 21 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 22 | If the relatively steep dips of some of the exposed reverse faults were to continue deep into the crust , the region to the south could legitimately be regarded as unprospective . |
| 23 | On April 8 a representative of the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) said in Nairobi that ceasefire negotiations were to continue regardless of an incident that day when USC members clashed with forces of the SPM and of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) at Afgoye , 30 km west of Mogadishu , the capital . |
| 24 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that the aspects of SSE which discriminated most strongly between respondents and non-respondents were to do specifically with the Oxfordshire scheme as it had operated in their school rather than with SSE as a general notion . |
| 26 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 27 | If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde . |
| 28 | The party is to go ahead at the end of August . |
| 29 | THE hunt for a missing Essex teenager who disappeared after visiting a three-day pop festival at Bramshott Common last year is to go nationwide in an attempt to find her . |
| 30 | You see how hard it is to see just from the graph , from a , from |