Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern .
32 The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody .
33 If for example the relations between Moslem populations in the United Kingdom , or between those populations and the non-Moslem community , were to break down as a result of the crisis in the Gulf , the implications for social cohesion public order and the peaceful coexistence of communities would be grave .
34 If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us .
35 If Englishmen in America were to push on to the west , it was fairly predictable that there would be clashes with the thinly scattered Indian population , and it was quite certain that if they went far enough either west or north they would meet the French .
36 If we were to travel back in a time-machine some five million years the physical differences would be quite discernible , even though most species such as monkeys , lions , horses and eagles would still exist .
37 I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’
38 They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time .
39 One of the best ways of getting enough vitamin D is to go out into the sunshine .
40 The next thing is to go out on the road and into people 's homes and offices , where they 've written us letters saying they want to get fit . ’
41 The sales department , for example , or the export department if the broadcast is to go out on the world service or in any particular language , might be able to use the information to back up sales activity and to show that promotional support is being given to the company 's product or services .
42 ‘ We could n't understand it because normally our drill is to go out of the back to the car park .
43 Not one leaf is to go out of the garden until either I or my chief taster gives the order . "
44 this one , look at the back , I think the reason it 's so big is to go in on the sockets at the back , put , you can put two tapes on it
45 Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future .
46 The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs .
47 Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives .
48 It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses .
49 Here she is , my dream woman , and she 's madly in love with some young blond boy whose only ambition is to drive around in a sports car and drink champagne ! ’
50 Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself .
51 Is to sit down with the estate agent and say , Right why have you got these business on .
52 The first step , therefore , is to write down in a list all of the data that you are given .
53 Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed .
54 Nevertheless , Brent CABx now have nine representatives of black groups and organisations on their management committee whose aim is to pass on to the bureaux their knowledge of the needs of the communities that they represent .
55 which is to come up with a word
56 The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place .
57 The cost of this is to come out of the subscription of £25 per year .
58 The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’
59 Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season .
60 But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 .
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