Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 2 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 3 | I 'm to leave in the morning , remember ? ’ |
| 4 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 5 | Yet I am bound to start with it , if I 'm to talk about the story of Jackson Pollock and his wife , the painter Lee Krasner . |
| 6 | ‘ But if this Jo answers , I 'm to stick to the script right ? ’ |
| 7 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 8 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 9 | I could never replace you … never find your equal if I were to look until the very day I die . ’ |
| 10 | I still believe that that someone is to come by the name of David and setting up of God 's kingdom but but |
| 11 | The fact that the ordnance survey map of Ben Lawers proudly declared a Visitor Centre at the base left me no choice in the route I was to take to the top . |
| 12 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 13 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 14 | The idea was , I was to go to the foster parents , stay there until the baby was born and mobile , and then move to a flat . |
| 15 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 16 | I was to speak to the Consul General . ’ |
| 17 | If I wanted assistance , I was to speak into the intercom . |
| 18 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 19 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 20 | It started all wrong with an aggravating incident indoors when I was to run against the American Mel Lattany and Earl Tulloch . |
| 21 | As a recently joined member of CAMRA , I must say how appalled I was to read of the new rules for the Champion Beer of Britain Competition for 1992 . |
| 22 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 23 | In fact , I was to stay with the new company . |
| 24 | This is affected by many things , most of which are to do with the interests and the values of the researcher , which are usually interrelated . |
| 25 | The , this is nothing to do with B S 5750 now , it 's to do with your review of forms , those forms which are to do with the relationship between accounts and er , researchers , I know will be en ooh , sorry , research and other staff . |
| 26 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |
| 27 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 28 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 29 | When , on 19 March 1856 , the tsar issued a manifesto which spoke of the blessings which were to descend upon the empire as a result of the peace treaty , he envisaged " equal justice and equal protection for everyone , so that each can enjoy in peace the fruits of his own righteous labours " . |
| 30 | It was not until 1876 that she started the meetings for mothers which were to develop into the Mothers ' Union . |