Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She confirmed at the weekend that she is to try for election to Europe in next year 's polls in the Conservative marginal Euro-constituency of Bedfordshire South . |
| 2 | At present the timber felled in this district is carried by road to Montgomery Station , for despatch by railway . |
| 3 | Oxford , of course , holds a very important place in the story of the printing of the Bible since , apart from earlier editions , the copyright for printing the Authorised Version of 1611 ( which , strangely enough , was never authorised in any official sense ) , and the Book of Common Prayer , is granted by charter to Oxford and Cambridge University Presses ( and by licence to the Queen 's Printers , Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode ) . |
| 4 | Centre Andy Luke also returns , while Paul Rodgers is preferred at hooker to Mike Fenwick , who has n't played for several weeks . |
| 5 | The question of dishonesty is settled by reference to Ghosh [ 1982 ] QB 1053 ( see under theft ) . |
| 6 | He rightly pointed out that the only duty of the Glamorgan selectors is to make certain the best captain is appointed in succession to Butcher . |
| 7 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |