Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you can not stop there , because I find it impossible to interpret the Act as meaning that the three years are to run from that date . |
| 2 | ‘ May be to do with that newsflash we heard about the pile-up near Freiburg . |
| 3 | Can I ask you who you would think would be to blame for that accident ? |
| 4 | Huy would need Merymose 's help if he were to proceed in that direction . |
| 5 | Apart from these five officials , the other members of the political executive committee were to work in that body alongside their regular jobs . |
| 6 | Oh , she knew well enough that if he were to walk through that door now , she would not entertain him ; her pride would not let her . |
| 7 | Such a policy of employing royal sons or brothers continued under the Lancastrians , as all four of Henry IV 's sons fought in France , and three were to die in that country . |
| 8 | For all she knew , the pilot in the Spitfire pursuing his enemy low across the fields was Johnny , and if anyone were to die in that encounter , it must not be him . |
| 9 | I think the key thing is to listen to that instinct as it 's most probably the thing that has the highest chance of being right . |
| 10 | ‘ The only thing left to do is to sort through that pile of things we cleared out of the cupboards and throw away what we do n't need anymore . ’ |
| 11 | And the temptation is to look at that list and say wonderful I can start phoning prospects that the doctors have already lined up for me . |
| 12 | And , if it is to be some planning , the need , then , is to focus on that approach which will best produce the results desired . |
| 13 | We must have many other things to say — to women about their interests , needs and values , to constitutional reformers about decentralisation and pluralism , to the party itself about democratising our own affairs , to our European partners about a new European agenda — but our main task is to identify with that majority constituency . |
| 14 | ‘ It may well be that … the only absolutely sure way of ensuring that a guarantee or charge from a third party is valid is to insist on that party being independently advised . |
| 15 | The safer approach is to start with that evidence which is directly relevant . |
| 16 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |
| 17 | ‘ The task of the Metropolitan Museum is to break through that silence and communicate — simply and conveniently — the full life of a work of art ’ . |
| 18 | Our aim is to improve on that record still further . |
| 19 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 20 | The River Lea forming the eastern boundary of the metropolis provided good communication , ample supplies of water , and motive power for the mills , distilleries and calico industries that had settled in West Ham previously , and was to continue in that role . |