Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 3 | ABERDEEN fish processors are to go ahead with an export drive to France this week , in spite of attempts by French fishermen to block the import of supplies . |
| 4 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 5 | The more such errors appear in the learning process , the more likely they are to appear later in the use of the language . |
| 6 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 7 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 8 | Clare 's ambitions are to jump out of a plane ( with a parachute ) and , she says , to be in a Rentokil publication ! |
| 9 | at how we 're to go forward in the future an and improve the service |
| 10 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 11 | If we 're to go home through the fields by the shore — what did you call-them , Meg ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 13 | ‘ Speaking the truth in love , we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head , into Christ from whom the whole body , joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied , when each part is working properly , makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love ’ ( Eph. 4.15–16 ) . |
| 14 | So what do parents require if they are to function effectively as a family ? |
| 15 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The normal courtesy would have been to phone ahead for an appointment . ’ |
| 17 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 18 | She let them pass , came to Hampstead tube station and thought what an adventure it would be to go home in a train . |
| 19 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 20 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 21 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 22 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 23 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 24 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 26 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 27 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 28 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 29 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 30 | The aim should be to move away from a subsistence standard of income in social security towards one that allows older people to participate more fully in society . |