Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
2 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
3 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
4 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
5 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
6 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
7 | Now , it appears that they are to take great pride in the fact that we are spending more on public services , and it is right to acknowledge that . |
8 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
9 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
10 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
11 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
12 | Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike . |
13 | Norway has confirmed that it is to resume scientific whaling in April and commercial whaling in May or June [ see ED 67 ] . |
14 | Castle , who announced earlier this week that he is to quit full-time tennis , was given a stiff examination by the British number two from Southampton . |
15 | He was willing to submit these terms to arbitrators to vary as they thought fit , but only on condition that he was to retain full power and jurisdiction . |
16 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
17 | But it was on his return to the West Coast that he was to suffer most discomfiture . |