Example sentences of "[pron] [be] to take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 2 | What if Mercia and I were to take over Northumbria ? ’ |
| 3 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 4 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 5 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 6 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 7 | If you were to take out erm health insurance cover |
| 8 | He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him . |
| 9 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 10 | The Presidium of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 10 appointed Pyotr Paskar as Chairman of the Moldavian Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) in place of Ivan Kalin , who was to take up a diplomatic post . |
| 11 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 12 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |
| 13 | Deliberately ignoring him , she began to pick straw out of her clothes , and only when she was satisfied that she had removed every last one , and had taken in all there was to take in about her immediate surroundings , did she look up at him . |
| 14 | Analysis of cells from these rats showed that drug action had interfered with the expression of genes for some of the proteins designed to move sugar into muscle and fat cells , exactly the target tissues which must be stimulated by insulin if they are to take up excess sugar . |
| 15 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 16 | One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons : |
| 17 | When I was fifteen or sixteen I found a confirmation of my interest in what it is to take on your own past in some of Sartre 's work . |
| 18 | He is to take over not only the redevelopment of derelict inner-city sites , a major initiative in itself , but also the overlordship of the ten ( soon to be 12 ) Urban Development Corporations , as well as acting as an English development agency , attracting foreign companies to English towns and cities in the same way as he did for Wales . |
| 19 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 20 | I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer . |
| 21 | And it was to take only one Scottish burning to achieve what some 275 burnings did in England : not only fear , but a Protestant backlash , ‘ a new fervency amongst the whole people ; yea , even in the town of St Andrews began the people plainly to damn such unjust cruelty ’ . |
| 22 | In time , it was to take only three minutes from " alarm " to " all ill " — an impressive performance , especially with numbers exceeding 400 with the arrival of " refugees " from William Hulme 's Grammar School and the Manchester Grammar School . |
| 23 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 24 | For an annual sum of £100 he was to take on the care , culture and management of the Garden for a term of seven years from Michaelmas , to keep in repair the stove , greenhouse and other buildings and utensils contained in them , to make a catalogue of the plants and , an additional commercial perquisite , to be allowed to sell surplus fruit and plants for his own benefit . |
| 25 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |