Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your new orders will also confirm that I am to assume overall charge of the investigation . |
| 2 | Said I was to take extra care to keep your ears warm , specially with this wind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The auction will also disperse the Erlenmeyer Collection of Western Asiatic cylinder seals and antiquities , the proceeds of which are to benefit environmental organizations . |
| 5 | If yu were to eat brown bread . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Together , these two initiatives exhibit most of the features which were to characterise Conservative policies towards the inner cities for the rest of the decade : |
| 8 | Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act , which were to have far-reaching implications . |
| 9 | The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments . |
| 10 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 11 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 12 | Issues which were to influence subsequent events and eventually lead to a national curriculum are specified : first , that the curriculum is overcrowded and the timetable overloaded ; secondly , that pupils who move from one school to another are penalized because of curricular variations between schools ; thirdly , that curricular arrangements within each school tend to give rise to unequal curricular opportunities for pupils ; fourthly , that the school curriculum is not sufficiently relevant for life in a modern industrial society ; and fifthly , that there are evident weaknesses in existing assessment procedures and methods of recording pupil progress . |
| 13 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 14 | Anatoly Chubais , the Committee 's chairman , explained the ways in which the privatization vouchers might be used : ( i ) workers could acquire shares in their own enterprise ; ( ii ) vouchers could be used at auction to buy shares in enterprises which were to become joint stock companies ; ( iii ) vouchers could be spent via private investment funds which would be intermediaries in share purchasing ; or ( iv ) vouchers could be sold for cash . |
| 15 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 16 | The difference between causal circumstances and their effects , further , is what distinguishes causal circumstances and effects from other things also in nomic connection , which is to say nomic correlates . |
| 17 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 18 | A table , chart , or programme , in this sense , is not a tape or a disc but a sequence of Propositions , which is to say abstract objects . |
| 19 | I 've forgotten my new year 's resolution which is to use christian names . |
| 20 | But beyond this , I think the prohibition in regulation 143 against making an order ‘ forthwith ’ can only apply to an order which is to take immediate effect and that a suspended order which the Legal Aid Board has the opportunity to contest in no way contravenes the regulation . |
| 21 | It has a Legislative Committee , one of the chief functions of which is to negotiate parliamentary endorsement for such measures . |
| 22 | Baker also proposed that there should be a regional development bank , rather like the new BERD which is to stimulate capitalist reconstruction in Eastern Europe , to contribute towards the fourth objective . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough councillors approved the proposals for the town 's Pallister Park which is to undergo major improvements as a neighbourhood leisure facility under a five-year City Challenge scheme . |
| 24 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 25 | The code , which is to have immediate effect , will mean more informal inquiry procedures , and will aid decision-takin by the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | The Eagle Lodge concept , which is to provide supportive housing for elderly single persons , has proceeded with increasing momemtum throughout 1990 . |
| 27 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 28 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 30 | The new plan , which was to take immediate effect , did not , unlike its predecessor , envisage civil service salary cuts . |