Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And if it 's determined that you are to return to work then your pension would actually will cease . |
| 4 | No , you 're to go to bed . |
| 5 | ‘ Mat says you 're to come to dinner tonight and stay over . |
| 6 | If we are to point to government growth , then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to do something , ’ she answered sharply , ‘ unless we are to starve to death . ’ |
| 8 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 9 | The higher the tax rate the more incentive there is to give to charity . |
| 10 | The lower the tax rate the more costly it is to give to charity compared to ordinary spending . |
| 11 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 12 | The only ‘ sanction ’ against them is to resort to world public opinion' ( Cassese , 1979 , p. 165 ) . |