Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once this was conceded , the next step would be to move to their becoming semi-independent public bodies ( much the same might happen to hospitals and other public services ) , with the ‘ freedom to manage ’ without regard to political pressure from local electors or ‘ vested interests ’ ( trade unions and professionals ) and the freedom to cut labour costs ( the main item in service budgets ) by paying people only what it was necessary to pay them in that local market . |
| 2 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 3 | In summary , cooperation is still necessary if trade , output , and employment are to develop to their full potential . |
| 4 | Born in Belgium in 1903 , he easily acquired the sexual habits which were to lead to his eventual boast to have slept with 10,000 women — 8,000 of them prostitutes . |
| 5 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |
| 6 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 7 | On pages 206 — 211 we give some sample ready-planned daily menus made up from these meals , to show you how easy it is to keep to your preferred eating pattern and daily dieting calorie allowance . |
| 8 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 9 | Perhaps the way forward from the potential abyss that local government could face is to return to its initial values of pluralism , public participation and local choice . |
| 10 | Car owners whose main concern is to return to their parked vehicles will need to retrace their steps exactly to avoid steep cliffs at the south end , but others with no such inhibitions can extend the walk , and enjoy doing so , by following the crest of the ridge northwards until meeting the path coming up from Clapham Bottoms bound for Selside , here turning down east to join another path to Selside , this continuing the road along Crummackdale from Austwick . |
| 11 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |
| 12 | Although representatives of the Prussian ruling class they played a necessary role in the development of the national aspirations of the people which was to lead to our new Germany … . ’ |
| 13 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 14 | This accounts for some of the hopefulness with which France was to look to her African possessions for military manpower in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |