Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 2 | They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard . |
| 3 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 4 | While the main purpose of this article is to deal with the larger of the Cichlasoma species , advice on the basics of establishing a cichlid community can be applied to any of the species , even the smallest ones . |
| 5 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |
| 6 | The best method is to begin at the fainter of the two Pointers ( Agena , or Beta Centauri ) and extend a line from it through Alpha Trianguli Australe ; prolonged for far enough this will lead to Alpha Pavonis in the Peacock , after which the other Birds can be sorted out . |
| 7 | The latter managed to sense the way the wind was to blow during the Eighties by anticipating the various forms of emerging Neo-Expressionism . |