Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | I am to report immediately to Personnel for redeployment . |
| 3 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 4 | The 343 workers whose sackings led to Britain 's most bitter industrial dispute since the late 1980s are to meet tomorrow to be told by the unions the details of the rundown package on offer . |
| 5 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're to go back to Braine-le-Comte . |
| 7 | West Lothian , that was too early and we 're to write back to . |
| 8 | ‘ She says you 're to come out to her . ’ |
| 9 | LAURA PATTEN and her older sister Kate are to fly out to Hong Kong on December 20 to help their father , Governor Chris Patten , put aside local problems and enjoy a family Christmas . |
| 10 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 11 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 12 | Plus , I 've still got to write something witty to drag home , if I 'm to go back to employment that is . |
| 13 | He was nursing his arm , his task seemed to be to keep close to Marian and prevent her making a dash for it . |
| 14 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 15 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 16 | Nor did I realize how difficult it would be to face up to going back . |
| 17 | That is a reasonable proposition because , if the Minister is sincere , the last thing that he would want would be to rush in to sell-offs when the buy-out teams were not ready to participate . |
| 18 | Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations . |
| 19 | Appropriate opportunities for advancement ( promotion , better pay and other forms of recognition for increased skills and experience ) must be provided if we are to live up to principles of social and economic justice . |
| 20 | After all we are only half way through this year 's Charity of the Year programme and there is still a long way to go if we are to raise enough to fully fund the training of a Macmillan Nurse . |
| 21 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 22 | ‘ Our brief has always been to get back to our home ground and stay in the First Division and I think we are capable of achieving both . ’ |
| 23 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 24 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 25 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 26 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 27 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 28 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 29 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 30 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |