Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his MC and other wartime awards are to go under the hammer as receivers sell his belongings to pay creditors . |
| 2 | Further , the user will be able to select the status of SPRs/SSRs that are to appear in the report and will also be able to limit the report to only those modules which appear in the Root Package itself . |
| 3 | His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world . |
| 4 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 5 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 6 | The greater the return to shareholders the more attractive it will be to invest in the company and hence the higher the valuation of the company in the view of the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | To think otherwise would be to succumb to the glamour and particularity with which seniority was invested by the boys themselves ; the critical fact was that , in the fullness of time , little boys who were beaten by big ones might reasonably expect to do the beating themselves . |
| 8 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 9 | The differences seem to be to do with the fact that local ‘ product champions ’ are often required to stimulate the infusion of new practices . |
| 10 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 've allowed yourself to be persuaded either by Lotta 's silver tongue or her golden purse to attempt to defraud me — then your best course of action now would be to make for the door before I remember that the blood of the ancient Vikings still runs in my veins ! ’ |
| 12 | Rather than trying to start in the depths of prehistory , when local material may be scarce , or difficult to interpret , a better approach may well be to begin in the present and work backwards . |
| 13 | Yet if we are to pronounce on the desirability or otherwise of individual monopoly situations , or proposed mergers , this is clearly what is required to provide an unambiguous policy recommendation . |
| 14 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 15 | ‘ If Chelsea were to proceed with the ground-share as it stands , the legal position of the development would be in doubt . ’ |
| 16 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 17 | By way of explanation , the bemused kids were told this was a police operation , and they were to gather in the corridor and wait quietly for further instructions . |
| 18 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 19 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 20 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 21 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 22 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 23 | In Uganda the nationalizations were to extend to the import and export business , although President Milton Obote in his first presidency was ousted by General Amin before being able to implement the programme . |
| 24 | Assistant catering manager Ronnie McLay said : ‘ A short time before the hungry crowds descended , catering manager Sid Ashford and I gave Jim , Lorna and Agnes a big surprise : they were to deal with the barbecue while we acted as runners . |
| 25 | And what if Martin does n't have any children ; or , say , if he were to die in the war and you survived , what then … |
| 26 | Courier 's final messages from Higueras were to relax on the court and play smart . |
| 27 | They were to assemble in the nave and discuss the pageant for Corpus Christi . |
| 28 | In the evening they were to sing by the lake and gone to inspect the stage . |
| 29 | Mr Runciman said he had prepared a draft statement on the profits warning and the company 's corporate finance advisers , Hoare Govett , were to advise on the wording and timing of the statement . |
| 30 | The 1979 local Assemblies throughout the country debated Libya 's relations with Malta ; they were to advise on the question whether Libya should give economic aid to her ally . |