Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 2 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 3 | The finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues , but not even her careful accounting could alter the fact that if we were to survive beyond the first month we would need to raise some money . |
| 4 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |
| 5 | ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 6 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 7 | Their great day is to dawn in the next generation , for the novel becomes the great art form of the nineteenth century , from Los Angeles to New York , from London and Edinburgh to Moscow and Budapest . |
| 8 | The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence . |
| 9 | There is hope for Hector 's , but it has certainly been saved from fishing nets at the last hour , and will need all the protection and help it can get if it is to survive through the next century . |
| 10 | The whole secret is to get over the first round and then improve your display for the next game . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 12 | Actor Robert Englund is to return in a seventh Nightmare on Elm Street film next year , despite moguls vowing Freddy 's Dead : The Final Nightmare was the last . |
| 13 | London is to feature as the next Spotlight in the September edition of Medau News and London teachers are asked to submit suggestions to Molly Hammond by 30th May at the latest . |
| 14 | The tendency of moral philosophers , thinks Moore , is to rush into the third question , without having dealt with the first two . |
| 15 | Scottish prison officers are to strike for the first time in their history on November the fifth . |
| 16 | This growth was to continue into the 20th century ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 18 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
| 19 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 20 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 21 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 22 | In this context , the major challenge for Marxism became how to explain Marxism 's ‘ detour ’ from itself , a question on which Sartre 's project was to founder in the second volume of the Critique of Dialectical Reason . |
| 23 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 24 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 25 | As Christine de Pisan was to show in the first quarter of the century , the use of artillery for defensive purposes was now regarded as necessary and normal . |
| 26 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |