Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) .
2 The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays .
3 way of categorising the names is to list them by the of medium in much the same way as they are listed ie media guides .
4 Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue .
5 The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed .
6 Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power .
7 Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure :
8 After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her .
9 The alternative to burying cable in the walls is to run it on the surface in mini-trunking , and then use surface-mounted light switches .
10 According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather .
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