Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 3 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 4 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 5 | Clare 's ambitions are to jump out of a plane ( with a parachute ) and , she says , to be in a Rentokil publication ! |
| 6 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 7 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking the truth in love , we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head , into Christ from whom the whole body , joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied , when each part is working properly , makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love ’ ( Eph. 4.15–16 ) . |
| 9 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |
| 10 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 11 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 12 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 13 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 14 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 15 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 16 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 17 | Instructions are to hang in between the taps and any trapped spider will climb up it and away to other parts . |
| 18 | The directors Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat are to stay on after the Deanses agreed that an independent chairman be appointed to the board . |
| 19 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 20 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 21 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 22 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 23 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 24 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 25 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 26 | For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam . |
| 27 | If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them . |
| 28 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 29 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 30 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |