Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 32 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 33 | The purpose of the judicial review was to dispose of the district judge 's order so as to permit the substitution by the reviewing court of a different order , still directed to the way in which the matter should proceed . |
| 34 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 35 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 36 | One way of thinking about abstract identification is to think of the output as being a statement like ‘ This is word number 538 ’ . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Chola was carrying a basket with the hoes and a rug , some ro is to eat in the course of the day and a bronze pot for fetching water from the spring . |
| 39 | It is untrue that the only way to improve spelling is to return to the principle of ‘ spelling as you speak ’ based on phonemics . |
| 40 | The reason falls into two parts : the first relates to savings and the second is to do with the nature of . |
| 41 | Expert clauses take various approaches to the question of whether the procedure the expert is to follow in the reference should be set out in the expert clause . |
| 42 | Expert clauses and terms of reference may characterise the decision the expert is to make by the use of certain adjectives or longer , more elaborate qualifications . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The plan is to do for the food industry what the Medical Research Council 's Cell tech offshoot is doing for genetic engineering in medicine . |
| 45 | THE FIRST Eurocentric war museum is to open on the site of the Battle of the Somme in July . |
| 46 | The opposite of projection is to mull over the past with resentment and regret . |
| 47 | This type of case requires a long-term treatment plan using multi-disciplinary resources and requires careful monitoring over the course of many months or perhaps years if the child is to stay with the family . |
| 48 | His dream was to build on the site a building by the Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe , which would also create a New York-style plaza , to be known as Mansion House Square . |
| 49 | What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council . |
| 50 | Eventually the Committee was to wither on the vine ; its last reference resulting in the Committee 's Eighteenth Report on Conspiracy to Defraud in 1986 . |
| 51 | The rest of their food was in the forest , their plan was to feed on the forest as they went . |
| 52 | To advance further into the wood was to trample on the colour blue . |
| 53 | For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world . |
| 54 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 55 | It has established diplomatic and trade relations with South Korea and its rapidly growing economy would only suffer if a war were to start across the border . |
| 56 | Another practical way of ensuring an outward focus is to insist on the group having one evening in four where they are either involved in evangelism , or planning for it . |
| 57 | Bringing to life this principle — " subsidiarity " or " nearness ' — is essential if the Community is to develop with the support of its citizens … |
| 58 | His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class . |
| 59 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 60 | In some LEAs there are qualified teachers whose job is to liaise between the school and the home , by visiting the child 's family at home , seeing parents if they visit the school , and by organising activities , both during and after school hours , to encourage parental involvement with the school and with their children 's education . |