Example sentences of "be [to-vb] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Another aspect of improving quality will be to focus on the many areas where problems of poverty and unemployment will persist if special measures are not taken .
2 The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank .
3 In many ways , Sussex escaped the wholesale rearrangements of life and customs which the Norse invasions were to have on the northern shires .
4 The advice of the Government and the Audit Commission is to concentrate on the main risks , and if town halls persist in targeting women 's institutes , church fetes , village halls or charity teas , the Government will take action .
5 Kwik Save is to open on the two Sundays before Christmas .
6 So technology has advanced considerably , and what we 've done is to capitalise on the younger engineers and we 've introduced another phase called neighbourhood engineers and this is where we rely on the er goodwill of the firms to actually sa let their seconder engineers sometimes , but certainly let them out into the er into the schools careers convention work places to talk to the actual youngster itself .
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