Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'You 're to go at the beginning of January , but I shall have to wait till all this house business is finished . |
| 2 | An even more revealing way to consider the changes in the popularity of divorce would be to look at the proportion of each marriage cohort that divorces after a particular period of time . |
| 3 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 4 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 5 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 6 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 7 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 8 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
| 9 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 10 | To see him Fred Astaire-ing in white tie and tails down stairways which light at the touch of a toe , or pelvising his way through lurex-decked rock and roll routines , is to sit at the ringside of every trapped soul 's private escape hatch . |
| 11 | No-one realises how f—in' hard it is to scream at the top of your lungs and concentrate on playing guitar solos . |
| 12 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 13 | Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up . |
| 14 | One simple way of spotting a poisonous species is to look at the shape of the head . |
| 15 | The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years . |
| 16 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 17 | The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers . |
| 18 | But the next step is to look at the catalogue of a good University library . |
| 19 | The simplest way to decide whether a collection of individuals ( a group ) will be sufficient or whether a genuine team operating at the skilful stage is necessary , is to look at the nature of the task to be tackled . |
| 20 | The important thing here is to look at the nature of the evidence , which is opinion and hearsay — that MacDonald favoured the idea , and had re-aligned his own political thinking . |
| 21 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 22 | One way of attempting to assess the situation is to look at the list of unfair terms set out in the annex to the Directive , and decide the extent to which English law will already control such clauses . |
| 23 | IT 'S AEROBIC — The key to walking aerobically is to walk at a pace of 3.5 — 4.0 miles per hour for a minimum of 20 minutes , during which time the heart rate is elevated to 60–85 per cent of its |
| 24 | LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future . |
| 25 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 26 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 27 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 28 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 29 | The biggest cut comes in Germany where its packaging plant in Braunschweig is to close at a cost of 275 jobs , and the decision highlights the growing structural problem in the German economy : growing numbers of German and international companies now find that the high cost of employment makes it too expensive to manufacture there . |
| 30 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |