Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Van Butchell was not to be gawped at . |
| 2 | So , if you 're 7 years old , or have a fondness for giant cuddly toys which speak very loudly indeed , Sesame Street is not to be missed . |
| 3 | Professor Kathleen Tillotson is also to be applauded on her C.B.E . |
| 4 | I know what I think Miss Green 's up to but I 'd like to be sure . ’ |
| 5 | Suppose , when they got back , he asked her what Miss Green was up to ? |
| 6 | Suppose , when they got back , he asked her what Miss Green was up to ? |
| 7 | — Middlesbrough singer Lawrie Bennett is off to Cromer next week to star in the Pavilion Theatre summer show . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , poor Eve , Mother Francis was on to me about it . ’ |
| 9 | Whatever Ewen Mackay was up to , it could really hardly matter . |
| 10 | By the time she had fetched her second cup of tea , Mrs. Mounce was on to their relations with their bank manager , and Tessa kicked off her shoes and tucked her legs up beneath her to be companionable . |
| 11 | But David Kent was nowhere to be seen . |
| 12 | BTW Gavin is off to Holland today for a week . |
| 13 | It is absolutely vital that the access notes in the guide are respected if the popular climbing area of Upper Pen Trwyn is not to be lost permanently . |
| 14 | Certainly this alteration will ensure the strategic policy in North Yorkshire is up to date . |
| 15 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 16 | Janis Kounellis is still to be seen at Lelong , showing early lithographs in small editions of twenty-one impressions . |
| 17 | Another black art is revealed in D. Solow 's How to Read and do Proofs . |
| 18 | If post cold-war Europe is not to be violent and conflictual then the sources of rivalry and mistrust need to be addressed head-on . |
| 19 | Or perhaps Graham Mills was about to be named by the defector just before his murder . |
| 20 | GRAHAM Taylor was down to the bare bones today when only 14 of his England squad took part in his first Bisham training session before next week 's critical World Cup clash against Poland . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you , Mr Devereux is n't to be disturbed tonight . ’ |
| 22 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 23 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 24 | Stepping into his path , Harry enquired as innocently as he could if Mr Cornelius was anywhere to be found . |
| 25 | Mr Glynn Ford , Labour leader in the Euro-parliament , said the Tories led by Sir Christopher were about to ‘ live in sin ’ . |
| 26 | SCO 's Doug Michaels is off to China to try and work out some of the copying and pirating issues , claiming that up to one third of PCs in the People 's Republic run SCO Xenix . |
| 27 | Next door , Mr Malik was back to talking about cars . |
| 28 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 29 | At such a moment God is never to be forgotten . |
| 30 | Henley rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are through to the coxless pairs finals in the Olympics . |