Example sentences of "[am/are] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external auditor should review the work of the internal audit staff to determine their effectiveness in assisting management to improve the quality of information that is necessary if they are to monitor satisfactorily the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmes under their charge . |
| 2 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 3 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 4 | Mr. Anderson : If we are to fill up the beds in our very welcome Holiday Inn in Swansea , we need , as the Secretary of State will be aware , to clean up Swansea bay . |
| 5 | This important point needs to be reemphasised if we are to consider seriously the possibility of re-introducing Islamic precepts into the law of property in Malaysia … |
| 6 | All cities have different records in this respect and they all merit individual research if we are to piece together the various aspects of post-war urban development ( Manchester 's Moss-side development was different from Sheffield 's Park Hill estate of ‘ streets in the sky ’ , and different again from Newcastle 's development at Byker , with its famous ‘ wall ’ ) . |
| 7 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 8 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 9 | Since Fokine showed that dancers must also be able to act if they are to live out the story or theme , very few choreographers have used the almost static scènes d'action which stop the flow of dance . |
| 10 | Under the new proposals , people are to have just the one tax bill each year , covering all their income . |
| 11 | More seriously , two other possibilities are to knit only the front of the garment in the pattern and the back and sleeves in stocking stitch , or in the case of this pattern , perhaps in stripes of pattern based on stitches 12 and 13 of the pattern . |
| 12 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 13 | Clubs with water between Congleton and Kidscrobe are to thrash out the best way of removing the mink which have spiralled in numbers . |
| 14 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 15 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 16 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 17 | The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige . |