Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON music groups are to travel across the Channel to entertain German counterparts . |
| 3 | The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during the Uniforum show in San Francisco next month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause ( UX Nos 415 , 423 ) . |
| 4 | Three Birmingham children 's homes are to close as the council attempts to bolster its foster service . |
| 5 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | In the coming months and years the question of castles was to remain in the forefront of everyone 's mind . |
| 7 | the end cha , the end of the chapter said that if parents were to re-take on the role of educating and disciplining children within the home |
| 8 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 9 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 10 | Somewhat ironically , given the role bankers were to play in the conspiracy theory , she was the daughter of a director of Barclay 's Bank . |
| 11 | If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world . |
| 12 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 13 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 14 | One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses . |
| 15 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 16 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
| 17 | It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 18 | One of BSSO 's major functions is to liaise with the Security Service ( MI5 ) , which is particularly active in trying to stop IRA terrorism on the Continent and in mainland Britain . |
| 19 | Now his MC and other wartime awards are to go under the hammer as receivers sell his belongings to pay creditors . |
| 20 | Two factories are to close with the loss of two hundred and ten jobs . |
| 21 | That finding effectively determines the agreed figures on which damages relating to the provision of suitable accommodation in turn , it is agreed that if two carers are to live in the household , that suitable new accommodation for the plaintiff can be acquired for two hundred and seventeen thousand , five hundred pounds , the house in which he at present lives will fe fetch eighty two thousand , five hundred pounds , a difference of a hundred and thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Just as the drainers had previously arrived as outsiders on the wetland commons , so the conservationists were to wade into the wetland issue , often importing their perspectives from outside . |
| 23 | In Figure 9.9 this would occur if the boundary between the solid and liquid phases were to move to the right as pressures get large . |
| 24 | Imagine the consequences if its entire contents were to escape into the atmosphere . |
| 25 | Only the highest or the most favoured guests were to live in the tent city , and so , inevitably , the fighting between socialites to ensure places there was fierce . |
| 26 | In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ] |
| 27 | In a pre-scheduled address to an international banking conference attended by the Czech and Slovak finance ministers where he was to have delivered a lecture on setting up direct sales operations in Eastern Europe , Kontrax president Gabor Dixco told an embarrassed audience that the global recession , poor financial management and lack of support from the banks were to blame for the company 's collapse . |
| 28 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |
| 29 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 30 | If managers are to deliver on the contract they negotiate with purchasers , there needs to be a means of integrating medical and nursing staff into the management process to ensure that the terms of these contracts are met . |