Example sentences of "be [to-vb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'You 're to go at the beginning of January , but I shall have to wait till all this house business is finished . |
| 2 | An even more revealing way to consider the changes in the popularity of divorce would be to look at the proportion of each marriage cohort that divorces after a particular period of time . |
| 3 | The aim of this book , then , will be to look at the relationship between the ‘ culture ’ of subjects and our common-sense constructions of masculinity and femininity ; and the implications of this relationship for gender inequality in higher education . |
| 4 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 5 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 6 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 7 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 8 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 9 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 10 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
| 11 | RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley . |
| 12 | To see him Fred Astaire-ing in white tie and tails down stairways which light at the touch of a toe , or pelvising his way through lurex-decked rock and roll routines , is to sit at the ringside of every trapped soul 's private escape hatch . |
| 13 | Tony Thomas , the BRM Trustee told SRN that this 4-6-0 is to remain at the museum for the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | No-one realises how f—in' hard it is to scream at the top of your lungs and concentrate on playing guitar solos . |
| 15 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 16 | One simple way of spotting a poisonous species is to look at the shape of the head . |
| 17 | He says that the only way you can tell they 're fake , is to look at the stitching on the labels . |
| 18 | The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years . |
| 19 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 20 | A working party is to look at the provision for 16-plus age groups with special needs . |
| 21 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |
| 22 | One analysis which has proved useful is to look at the issue as a process of dealing with information , and to define the skills involved in this process as information skills ( Winkworth , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers . |
| 24 | But the next step is to look at the catalogue of a good University library . |
| 25 | The simplest way to decide whether a collection of individuals ( a group ) will be sufficient or whether a genuine team operating at the skilful stage is necessary , is to look at the nature of the task to be tackled . |
| 26 | The important thing here is to look at the nature of the evidence , which is opinion and hearsay — that MacDonald favoured the idea , and had re-aligned his own political thinking . |
| 27 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 28 | One way of attempting to assess the situation is to look at the list of unfair terms set out in the annex to the Directive , and decide the extent to which English law will already control such clauses . |
| 29 | One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph . |
| 30 | Our first step is to look at the context for the debate about age discrimination at work ; in particular , the growth of retirement in general and early retirement more specifically . |