Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment . |
| 2 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 3 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
| 4 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'm to take one 10mg tablet daily for ten days , starting tomorrow , and the lumps on my body should begin to subside . |
| 6 | I know , but I 'm to buy two birthday presents I just do n't have thirty . |
| 7 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 8 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 9 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 10 | DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed . |
| 11 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 12 | If I were to seek one word to describe the quality of these works of art many by famous names , many by local artists to whom the purchase brought rare encouragement — I should say that they are alive . |
| 13 | ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy . |
| 14 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 15 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 16 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
| 17 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 18 | My Fellow Tablers , I will never ever forget how proud I was to say those words , Fellow Tablers , my first as a Tabler after being inducted some thirteen years ago . |
| 19 | Over the years I was to meet Irish women who , unable to stand the barrages of racism , distorted and changed their accents in order to pass . |
| 20 | I was to have one visit from the district nurse and , of course , check-ups from my GP and surgeon . |
| 21 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 22 | Soon after my operation , I was to have another experience of this ignorance . |
| 23 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 24 | Later I was to find this sort of coincidence recurring . |
| 25 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 26 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 27 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 28 | The auction will also disperse the Erlenmeyer Collection of Western Asiatic cylinder seals and antiquities , the proceeds of which are to benefit environmental organizations . |
| 29 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |
| 30 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |