Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] [pron] [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 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 3 | To sit down in meditation and think of these mystical ideas is to poise oneself for the transcendent journey . |
| 4 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 5 | The role of the examinations is to determine which of the candidates have reached a set standard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 11 | The function of underwriters was to commit themselves before the issue to buy the bonds at a set minimum price , if they could not be sold by the managing group at a price above this minimum . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |