Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Further , in the case of such an application , the licensing board are to consult with the fire authority ( subs .
2 A TEAM of archaeologists from Newcastle University are to dig in the centre of Darlington in search of 14th century remains .
3 THE Football Association are to bring to an end a lucrative film contract after being embarrassed by the notorious Vinnie Jones video , writes Rob Shepherd .
4 Vandalism and theft are to blame for the 23pc rise .
5 Some 67 schools in the North-East are to compete for the £8000 prize money on offer in the inaugural Northern Echo Schools Cricket Championship .
6 The figures if the Revenue were to succeed in a Furniss v Dawson attack may , of course , be considerable .
7 Throughout the period , a majority of working class women gave birth at home with no pain relief , the common practice being to pull on a towel knotted round the end of the bed when the pains came .
8 Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it .
9 The reader 's only remedy is to go to the exhibition .
10 If the problem is to be resolved now , the only option open to the Killinchy Club is to try for a date outside of the month of May 1994 , which would leave all the options open for any North West date .
11 If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing .
12 THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors .
13 One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph .
14 The purpose of this chapter is to look at the infancy stories about Jesus as recorded by both Matthew and Luke .
15 If the mix is to confirm to the J.I. formula , the loam should be sterilized .
16 IT is true that we need a free Press to curb Government excesses , but intruding into people 's privacy and using heavy-handed tactics in stories concerning tragedy is to play into the Government 's hands .
17 As was pointed out in Section 1 , one of the functions of the present study is to cater for the interests of those seeking replicable materials for English-language teaching .
18 If the intention is to justify to the source of funds the need for additional finance as circumstances arise , the contingency sum can be lower .
19 Relaunched on a regular basis , its intention is to bring to the public 's attention the fact that many who would otherwise have valid personal injury cl aims never proceed with them .
20 If a car is to remain on the road , basic checks and adjustments need to be made regularly .
21 A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat .
22 Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’
23 Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker .
24 To speak of a standard effect is to speak of an event necessitated by a circumstance , and to imply the existence of such an effect by speaking of a cause is to imply the existence of a necessitated event .
25 ( An interesting way of countering this effect is to keep by the bedside a ‘ dream diary ’ in which , as soon as you wake , you can jot down any memories you may have of your dreams .
26 A pioneering agreement between the German government and private industry is to provide for the clean-up and reconstruction of one of eastern Germany 's most polluted industrial sites , centred on the old Mansfeld metal conglomerate , near Halle .
27 His alternative is to call in the army , as he did in 1986 when low-paid police rioted in Cairo .
28 The only alternative is to turn to the chapter itself and skim the pages for a clearer insight .
29 The alternative is to scare off the enemy and this is done by inflating the body and raising the rear end of it towards the approaching assailant .
30 It is important to stress that ill-health in old age is not just the result of physical and mental wear and decline , or that the only effective action is to call for the doctor .
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