Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 32 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 33 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 34 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 35 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 36 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 37 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 38 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 39 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 40 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 41 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 42 | My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge . |
| 43 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 44 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 45 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 46 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
| 47 | " You are to take me to the King , " he said . |
| 48 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 49 | A stop gate provides protection as the canal approaches the aqueduct which is to carry it across the River Tame ( Feb 83 guide ) and between a sewage works and an electricity substation . |
| 50 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 51 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 52 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |
| 53 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 54 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 55 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 56 | way of categorising the names is to list them by the of medium in much the same way as they are listed ie media guides . |
| 57 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 58 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 59 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 60 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |