Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further task for the special advisory team will be to act as consultant to teachers who have visually handicapped pupils in their classes . |
| 2 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
| 3 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 4 | She confirmed at the weekend that she is to try for election to Europe in next year 's polls in the Conservative marginal Euro-constituency of Bedfordshire South . |
| 5 | The easy course , in fact , in a life of ‘ self-sufficiency ’ is to drift from day to day , working hard but always responding to circumstances ; on a subsistence holding like ours , there is always somewhere to be weeded ; something to be mended or maintained . |
| 6 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 7 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |
| 8 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |