Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , I 'd much prefer more conducive company if I 'm to travel down river . |
| 2 | We ourselves were to travel by train . |
| 3 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 4 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 5 | There was also the anxiety of discovering where I was to sit in chapel ; then I had to learn the names and whereabouts of the different houses and of the scattered playing fields . |
| 6 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 7 | In this respect Marshall , too , was confusing since he made no explicit distinction between those civil rights which are to do with citizenship — freedom of expression and association for example — and those which are to do with protecting the citizen from the state or the community — the freedom to marry and found a family , a right to privacy for instance . |
| 8 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 9 | The authorities also gave themselves the most important voice on the gentry committees which were to decide on land boundaries and the size of the peasants ' payments . |
| 10 | Nos. 11E , 18E and 20E with four others were sold to Cohens without trucks which were then used to replace unsatisfactory trucks under the seven Erith covered top cars , which were to remain in service a little longer . |
| 11 | One of the reasons why my partner and I disposed of our practice some years ago was the fact that the new legislation , particularly relating to investment business and the proposed audit regulations which were to come into force , was making practices less profitable , as it was impossible to pass all these extra costs on to the client . |
| 12 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 13 | Additionally , other university extension courses extending over forty-eight hours and comprising twenty-four meetings were almost identical to WEA One-Year courses , matters which were to become of concern to the WEA in subsequent years . |
| 14 | Two major defeats in ten years , followed now by the capture of the king , led to rebellion in Normandy and civil troubles in Paris which were to end in violence . |
| 15 | The committee , which is to report before Christmas , is expected at least to recommend the lifting of the ban on scientific whaling and to permit a target catch of 100 minke whales . |
| 16 | Now we 've all seen the intestacy there 's another little bit I like to deal with at this point er which is to do with inheritance tax . |
| 17 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 18 | The music by Dominic Muldowney is no more than pleasant , but it effectively fulfils its main purpose , which is to keep at bay recollections of Lerner and Loewe . |
| 19 | In November 1947 they had issued a statutory order ( which was to remain in force until July 1950 ) limiting all new orders for turbo-alternators for the home market to sets of 30MW capacity ( with prewar standard steam conditions of 600psi and 850°F ) and 60MW sets ( with more advanced steam conditions of 900psi and 900°F ) . |
| 20 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 21 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |
| 22 | The opposition objected in principle to the law ( which was to enter into force on March 11 , 1990 ) and appealed to the constitutional tribunal which , however , upheld it . |
| 23 | The bell continued to hang there , the rope passing through apertures in the ceilings of the top , first and ground floors into a poky cell which was to double as cloakroom and bellringer 's room . |
| 24 | In the autumn , overwhelmed by debts , Edward agreed to the truce of Espléchin which was to endure until midsummer 1342 . |
| 25 | The law , which was to come into effect on July 1 , was adopted with 350 votes in favour , three against and 11 abstentions . |
| 26 | A decree signed by Bashir on Feb. 1 introduced a new penal code based , as was the previous one , on sharia law , which was to come into effect on March 22 , but which did not apply to the three southern regions ( now states ) " for the time being , pending the establishment of elected assemblies there to deal with the issue " ( an official information document as quoted in the Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 ) . |
| 27 | On March 20 Czechoslovakia signed in Prague a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) , which was to come into effect on July 1 , 1992 , after completion of the ratification process . |
| 28 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 29 | TWO Alton cousins , Christian Browning and Tom Marks are on their way to Romania with a convoy of aid workers , who are to help with orphanage in Gaesti . |
| 30 | For example , it may be the practice on your ward to obtain less information from patients who are admitted as day cases than those who are to stay in hospital for some time and often it is not practical to conduct any sort of interview with someone who is admitted as an emergency . |