Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 2 | GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage . |
| 3 | This meeting took place under the guise of the 1987 Technology and Change Agreement whereby the Banks are to meet twice a year with the IBOA to discuss their future plans . |
| 4 | The aim of these talks will be to set up a dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis in Cairo on elections in the occupied territories . |
| 5 | The aim of these talks will be to set up a dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis in Cairo on elections in the occupied territories . |
| 6 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 7 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 8 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |
| 9 | The next step will be to draw up a set of criteria which personnel users new to computing , or the experienced user representing their interests , can use to make a sensible choice . |
| 10 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 11 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 12 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 13 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 14 | A ballast variant is defined by W.G.E. Watson as " simply a filler , its function being to fill out a line of poetry that would otherwise be too short " . |
| 15 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 16 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 17 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 19 | THE Government is to carry out a study into the number of children injured in fireworks accidents . |
| 20 | The FAOR methodology is directed at analysing the requirements of offices for information technology improvements , and the first Activity is to carry out an exploration of the chosen office domain , using the SSM as required . |
| 21 | The Government 's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities . |
| 22 | The Danish Government has announced that it is to carry out an inquiry into the accident . |
| 23 | The usual aim is to carve up a constituency in such a way that first-preferences will be spread evenly between candidates whose chances of election are judged to be good . |
| 24 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 25 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 26 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 27 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 28 | Head west to reach the head of a stream , Twrch Fechan , where the idea is to pick up a right of way travelling south-east to return to the walk starting point . |
| 29 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 30 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |