Example sentences of "be [to-vb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future . |
| 32 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 33 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 34 | My idea of good style is to arrive at the stance with a minimum of runners . |
| 35 | Another strategy which has been suggested is to attempt at the outset to ground comparative analysis firmly within the context of explicit and already well-formulated theoretical debate , such as ‘ convergence ’ theory ( Shalev , 1980a ) . |
| 36 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 37 | The odds are that a relationship that engenders such trust in infancy will continue to engender it in later childhood too , and who is to say at the end of it all that one period was more crucial than another in bringing about the final result ? |
| 38 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 39 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |
| 40 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 41 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 42 | At the end of the fourth week the players moved to Edinburgh where The Confidential Clerk was to open at the Lyceum on 25 August . |
| 43 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 44 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 45 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 46 | She was waiting to commence training as a nurse so her life was also heading in a new direction , but she was ill prepared for the grief she was to experience at the loss of the sister who had been so close and influential in her own life . |
| 47 | This phase corresponds to the mid-Victorian press and was to end at the turn of the century with the confirmation of the marketplace and commercialism as the key determinants of the press . |