Example sentences of "you [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then how do you know you are to give it to the Sheikh Osman ? ’
2 " You are to take me to the King , " he said .
3 It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution .
4 Right you 're to match it with a bear .
5 If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges .
6 If you were to touch him with a pin — and he 's a boy or a girl by now — he 'd move away , he feels pain .
7 You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout .
8 To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do .
9 It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons .
10 My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge .
11 And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’
12 Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch .
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