Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The present Labour MP in Barnsley West , Allen McKay , is to retire before the next general election . |
2 | He will start in Seoul , where he is to officiate at the 44th International Eucharistic Congress . |
3 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
4 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
5 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |