Example sentences of "[noun] [be] to get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , Toby was to get a good conspectus that day of the foothills of Burleigh teaching . |
| 2 | ST COLUMBA 'S Parish Church , Derryvolgie , Lisburn is to get a new rector . |
| 3 | Mr Rodriguez 's plan is to get a high-school diploma , then win a pilot 's licence . |
| 4 | Therefore , if this backward boy was to get a good education , he must somehow be crammed up or taught up to scrape a scholarship at one of the big independent schools where most of the fees would be paid for scholars . |
| 5 | Is it not clear that one of my right hon. Friend 's most important achievements at Maastricht was to get a clear definition of subsidiarity written into the treaty as a bulwark against creeping competence by the Commission and other Community institutions ? |
| 6 | GREEDY banks are to get a roasting from the Treasury for failing to pass on interest cuts fast enough to customers . |
| 7 | d THE triumphant Middlesbrough football team is to get a civic reception on Thursday at 12 noon . |
| 8 | I suppose the general aim is to get a huge Hollywood star , a singer , and perhaps a home-grown character , but it rarely works out like that and sometimes the most unlikely combination can really work . |
| 9 | The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question . |
| 10 | According to Jamie , the object of the game is to get a soggy fag-end from wherever it is in the channel along to and down the coverless hole , breaking it up as much as possible en –ute . |
| 11 | My object was to get a straight edge easily , but there was a definite risk of lifting small particles of colour as it was take off and my aim was to minimise the need for retouching . |
| 12 | ARMAGH Appointment THE newly opened Navan Fort Visitors Centre is to get a new director . |
| 13 | THE most famous observatory in the world is to get a major relaunch next month . |
| 14 | He adds : ‘ The important thing is to get a Labour government elected . ’ |
| 15 | BRAVE transplant tot Laura Davies is to get a new baby brother or sister , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 16 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 17 | WALES ' rugby squad is to get a yearly £15,000 boost from brewers Heineken as part of a three-year £3.1million deal to sponsor the Welsh League . |
| 18 | The JRC is to get a new Council of Administration to keep the formulation and management of research programmes at arm 's length from the politicians . |
| 19 | The task of the customer 's representative is to get a satisfactory job done as economically as possible . |