Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations were to continue on a further facility to replace the existing one when it expired in October . |
| 2 | Bangladesh and India were to extend for a further three years the trade agreement due to expire in October 1992 , All-India Radio reported on Aug. 6 following talks in New Delhi . |
| 3 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 4 | I think the postman would never have been able to decipher your scribble , your own version of Walser 's MS , Bleistiftgebiet or Kingdom of the Pencil , which we were to describe in a later poem , ‘ The Poem in the Pencil ’ . |
| 5 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 6 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 7 | One of the major objectives is to contribute to a better understanding of how the scientific constructs used to represent the objectives and practices of nature conservation in the United Kingdom can be communicated more effectively to the general public . |
| 8 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 9 | If the motor is to operate at a higher speed then the induced voltage is larger and the applied voltage must also increase , so that current flows into the winding over the extended speed range . |
| 10 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 11 | On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema . |
| 12 | ‘ My liver is to be buried separately from the rest of me , with full honours , ’ he was to say in a later film . |
| 13 | In the course of his rectorial address at Edinburgh in 1907 , Haldane asserted that " when a leader of Ingenious comes forward the people may bow down before him , and surrender their wills , and eagerly obey " , since " to obey the commanding voice was to rise to a further and wider outlook , and to gain a fresh purpose " . |