Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a failure calls for immediate action if you are to level out into normal flight and so prevent a stall . |
| 2 | In fact the hade of Fleming 's Vein is nowhere regular as the miners were to find out in due course . |
| 3 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 4 | By the Monday they were to shout down with peculiar virulence a similar although more long-winded question by Churchill . |
| 5 | It was not until after the accession of ‘ Bloody Mary ’ that Cornish church bells were to ring out in short-lived jubilation . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales is to pull out of top-grade polo severing his sporting links with Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 7 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 8 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 9 | The best return route is to descend steeply to Red Tarn below Crinkle Crags and then follow the broken track beside Brown Gill into Oxendale , with the shapely Langdale Pikes dominating the skyline ahead . |
| 10 | I am conscious that one of the ways in which my colleagues in the Government , and even on occasions myself , identify with the Province is to relapse periodically into theological language . |
| 11 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 12 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |
| 13 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 14 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 15 | My objective is to move on to fresh ground and not have to return to this particular patch . |
| 16 | To suggest that the races of mankind were separate creations was to depart widely from Biblical teaching . |
| 17 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 18 | In addition Hungary was to switch over to hard-currency trading with all East European partners by 1991 , and between 1992 and 1994 the forint was to be made partially convertible . |
| 19 | Its loyalty was to contrast favourably with American disloyalty five years later during the Suez crisis . |
| 20 | Ironically , when DG started out with AViioN , the fashion was to get away from proprietary silicon onto merchant microprocessors . |
| 21 | The only reason you join the T A was to get out of fucking work were n't it Stuart ? |
| 22 | McKeown 's main purpose was to take away from scientific medicine any credit for the decline in mortality which took place in England and Wales in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 24 | The intention was to move away from detailed course scrutiny as colleges ‘ grew in excellence ’ . |