Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 2 | Up to a hundred jobs are to go at the Nationwide Building Society . |
| 3 | First tonight 250 jobs are to go at the Royal Ordnance Rocket Research Plant which pioneered the infamous Blue Streak project . |
| 4 | There 's speculation tonight that up to two hundred jobs are to go at the Dowty Landing Gear factory at Staverton near Gloucester . |
| 5 | The more you manage to re-educate your eating habits , stretch and tone your body , the more likely you are to continue in the long term . |
| 6 | Civil servants in an advanced industrial state are meritocratically selected ( Therborn , 1978 ) even though their tasks are to plan in the long-run interests of capitalism . |
| 7 | Tonight we are to lodge at the Blue Boar inn near High Cross , the same tavern the Usurper rested at before Bosworth . |
| 8 | The longer you leave it the more likely you are to profit from the upward trend in equities established now for nearly a century . |
| 9 | If populations are to remain in the disadvantaged areas , and if the economy is to be diversified then the relationship between part-time farming and other complementary economic activities must be recognised in policy and fiscal terms . |
| 10 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 11 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 12 | Fifteen years later another official described the way an experienced litigant tutored witnesses : ‘ He examines , cross-examines , corrects , and directs those in their parts who are to appear in the real court and give their testimony regarding what they know , or are to pretend to know , on the day of the trial ’ . |
| 13 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 14 | But nowhere in this fine plan did anyone cite the imposition of VAT as a measure to be avoided if literature , reading , writing , and books , are to flourish in the new Europe . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it was held that the legislative intention must have been to exclude from the equitable rule any mortgage by a company . |
| 16 | THREE British embassies are to open in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia , the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , announced last night . |
| 17 | Windsurf intermediates or novices will enjoy themselves immensely if they 're to stick to the sheltered area when the winds are stronger . |
| 18 | Engineers from the DoT are to look at the southbound-only A1(M) and A66(M) interchange near the town to see if it can be adapted for northbound traffic . |
| 19 | If we are to look after the legitimate interests of the preserved railways , one or two changes need to be made to the Bill . |
| 20 | The purpose of this study has been to look at the different ways sixth-form pupils find and use information when undertaking a school assignment . |
| 21 | Previously the policy had been to raid during the moonless period of each month , transported by the LRDG and returning to base in between to reorganize . |
| 22 | For example , the pro-social erm , factors mobilize projection and identification , and the anti- social ones are to do with the instinctual drives , and , and , and so on . |
| 23 | The greatest difficulties faced by this unorthodox theory are to do with the compositional variations across the Moon . |
| 24 | The effects in the film , apart from the odd live alligator , are to do with the dead and with dying . |
| 25 | To suggest that it is shows how preconditioned some people are to react to the female body as pornographic . |
| 26 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 27 | The aims are to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of how the Scottish economy works , to make projections of Scottish economy statistics for up to five years ahead , and to analyse the effects of government policies . |
| 28 | Today 's Limerick game is Derry 's second last home League fixture and with just one point separating the top five challengers , a win is vital if Roy Coyle 's men are to figure in the final shakedown . |
| 29 | Newsome is just the sort of defender we need if we are to compete at the highest level . |
| 30 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |