Example sentences of "be to come [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 2 | They are to come from Grove Farm , just as you recommended , 12 Rhode Islands and 6 pullets . |
| 3 | If we believe , as we are taught , that the Kingdom of God is within us , surely this must mean that many of life 's experiences are a foretaste of the joys that are to come in heaven ? |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're to come into money , then it could n't be at a more appropriate moment , could it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Mat says you 're to come to dinner tonight and stay over . |
| 6 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 8 | The inflationary stimulus of the war saw the promotion of fifteen offices between 1793 and 1815 , but twenty-nine were to come into existence between 1815 and 1830 and fifty-six between 1830 and 1844 . |
| 9 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 10 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 11 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 12 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 13 | ‘ And if those four days he will need to collect Oreste were to come off Ferdinando 's own holiday which he would not take again then you would lose nothing , ma'am , if you please . ’ |
| 14 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 15 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 16 | The four hundred and ninety-five thousand lorry loads of stone needed to build the pyramid which the students planned as their mausoleum , were to come from Headington quarry . |
| 17 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 18 | It does seem that the best strategy for sufferers is to come to terms with their complaint : it is not crippling or life threatening , but is a chronic condition , like arthritis . |
| 19 | One of the first things required in the practice of tai chi chuan is to come to terms with its slow , dreamlike movements . |
| 20 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 21 | An embryonic European central bank is to come into existence soon after 1994 , the starting date of the second stage . |
| 22 | by enacting that a licence is to come into effect on the day it is granted or renewed ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) . |
| 23 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 24 | A PEDESTRIANISATION scheme which has angered disabled groups in Darlington is to come into force from March 29 . |
| 25 | While it did not mark the end of the conflict — though the early decrees of the Biblical Commission were quietly withdrawn in 1955 , the Biblicum was to come under attack on the eve of the Council — it was the most important milestone in the history of Catholic scriptural scholarship . |
| 26 | This quirk was to come under scrutiny in the Liverpool post-mortems a few months later . |
| 27 | Don Juan refused , but later acquiesced when , in October , Franco presented him with a fait accompli by leaking news that Juan Carlos was to come to Spain to continue his schooling . |
| 28 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 29 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 30 | The bus was to come to Burleigh for the swimmers at five-thirty , and then drive to Sturford , the county town , where the championships were to take place . |