Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to teach at a London drama academy . |
| 2 | ‘ In that case , tell me what you were doing modelling shorts when you should have been rehearsing with the wedding dress you 're to wear at the show . ’ |
| 3 | She was waiting to commence training as a nurse so her life was also heading in a new direction , but she was ill prepared for the grief she was to experience at the loss of the sister who had been so close and influential in her own life . |
| 4 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 5 | If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 6 | Children need to know what to do in these cases if they are to get at the truth , and they also need to be shown that print is not necessarily infallible . |
| 7 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 8 | They were to cut at the roots . |
| 9 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 10 | No-one realises how f—in' hard it is to scream at the top of your lungs and concentrate on playing guitar solos . |
| 11 | Imagine how difficult it is to look at the speaker if you can not tell the direction the voice is coming from , or if you can not hear his voice and maybe do n't know he is speaking . |
| 12 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
| 13 | The build-up to the crisis , comprising a description of Avarice ( a kind of jealousy ) as a metaphorical monster , Arion 's acceptance that he is to die at the hands of sailors who covet his riches , and his swansong , is in E major ( movements 5–7 : Vivement-Récitatif-Air ) . |
| 14 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |