Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the whole May Day event will be to raise at least £1,800 for the Queen Elizabeth Centre which , as part of the Upper Hamble Country Park , provides outdoor activity holidays for children with special needs . |
| 2 | If , on the other hand , the Nikkei index were to fall by just 20% from its mid-February level , it would leave a total of $114 billion-worth out of the money . |
| 3 | James R. Silke was to refer to how Warners offered ‘ heroes made from life ’ and Janet Graves has explained how the rigid financial limits imposed at the studio placed a premium on good dialogue and good acting . |
| 4 | A third was entirely concerned with management development and career planning and the fourth acted as a one-man think-tank , whose task was to advise on how ICI 's personnel policies should evolve in future . |
| 5 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |