Example sentences of "be [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POTATO farmers in Byelorussia , Ukraine and Russia are to use a biological pesticide to protect their crops from an assault from the Colorado beetle . |
| 2 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 3 | One of its priorities will be to publish a quarterly bulletin to maintain and develop the network . |
| 4 | American courts were to exercise a special vigilance to protect foreign litigants from abusive discovery , for example demands for excessive numbers of depositions or documents involving high transportation costs and capable of being used as a device to secure a settlement of the case . |
| 5 | One problem here is to establish a suitable criterion to judge the quality of a single.step response . |
| 6 | The difficult part — at least before creating the advertising itself — is to evolve a creative strategy to meet the objectives . |
| 7 | The only solution for this is to use a soldering iron to lengthen them ! |
| 8 | One answer is to use a finer grid to achieve finer detail ( Walsh et al. 1987 ) , but this causes a corresponding increase in the size of the raster database . |
| 9 | The owner of Wendy House , Yarm Road , Eaglescliffe , is to have a postal number to assist callers , Stockton council environment and general services committee agreed . |
| 10 | T HOSE with a vested interest in rubbishing the Prince of Wales 's new Institute of Architecture by tarring it with the brush of eccentricity will have a field-day when they learn that the founder of the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes , Isaac Tigrett , is to sponsor a Russian student to attend the Institute for five years beginning this autumn . |
| 11 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 12 | The ultimate test for a barrier , of course , is to get a local cyclist to try it out . |
| 13 | However , what we can do immediately and are in the process of doing is to introduce a statutory instrument to increase the grant level to 90 per cent . |
| 14 | Now all that remained was to find a suitable woman to replace Mildred . |
| 15 | But if Mosley 's practical search for radical economic policies was to provide a meaningful response to solve the problems of inter-war Britain , both Chesterton and Williamson survived by developing the higher metaphysical values derived from aesthetic appreciation of literature . |
| 16 | A more common method was to use a whirling fan to cover the copper plate with fine resin dust . |
| 17 | Their challenge , in common with three other teams of course members , was to propose a specific opportunity to reduce working capital . |
| 18 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 19 | His reaction was to allow a harsh laugh to escape him , until she struck him hard on the jaw ; then his laughter changed in a flash and he grabbed hold of first one fist , then two , holding them easily in one hand while be brought up his free hand and cupped her chin in it . |
| 20 | The clean coal project , he said , was to have a five-year timetable to replace the original 10-year timescale . |
| 21 | In Nielson-Jones v Fedden [ 1975 ] Ch 222 it was held that it was not sufficient for the husband and wife to sign a memorandum to the effect that the husband was to have a free hand to sell the property and use the money to buy a new house for himself although in Burgess v Rawnsley [ 1975 ] Ch 429 it was held that a beneficial joint tenancy was severed by the oral agreement of one joint tenant to sell her share in the property to the other even though that agreement was not specifically enforceable . |
| 22 | With a well placed hole a considerable quantity of rock could be broken off ; all that was necessary was to have a free face to work from . |
| 23 | Their intention was to introduce a new format to provoke competitive opportunities for our young players . |
| 24 | But the world was moving on , and national agendas were changing both in the United States and in Britain , a fact soon to be underlined by a British prime minister who was to make a conscious effort to grade Western Europe above the United States in Britain 's list of national priorities . |
| 25 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 26 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) , on the other hand , thought the sole function of the hypobranchial gland was to produce a glairy slime to cement particles together as they are swept out of the mantle cavity-despite their recognition of urocyanylcholine in the secretion . |