Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 3 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 5 | ALL major social security benefits are to go up by 3.6 per cent in line with inflation from next April . |
| 6 | Electricity charges are to go up by at least 5.8 per cent from April 1st . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This involves staff cuts , 850 of which have already been announced : 400 jobs are to go out of 1700 in Hull , 130 out of 650 in Baglan Bay , 200 out of 1300 in Antwerp and 120 out of 600 in central office . |
| 10 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 12 | MR NEIL KINNOCK and Mr Roy Hattersley — elected on Labour 's so-called ‘ dream ’ leadership ticket almost nine years ago — will announce today that they are to stand down as leader and deputy leader . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 15 | Playboater are to pull out of retailing to allow more time for other projects . |
| 16 | Clare 's ambitions are to jump out of a plane ( with a parachute ) and , she says , to be in a Rentokil publication ! |
| 17 | An important aspect of recent legislation and policy has been to tighten up on ‘ information agreements ’ , which could form the basis of secret collusion . |
| 18 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're to go on with me . ’ |
| 20 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're to go back to Braine-le-Comte . |
| 22 | West Lothian , that was too early and we 're to write back to . |
| 23 | ‘ She says you 're to come out to her . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 25 | That 's when we 're to help out with ? |
| 26 | ‘ Speaking the truth in love , we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head , into Christ from whom the whole body , joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied , when each part is working properly , makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love ’ ( Eph. 4.15–16 ) . |
| 27 | Here a failure calls for immediate action if you are to level out into normal flight and so prevent a stall . |
| 28 | Hundreds more hospitals are to opt out of health service management and the Government wants to revamp the bureaucracy to cope with the changes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |