Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In Hungary , for example , the Germans are to blame for the Hungarian Holocaust , the ‘ Russians ’ for Soviet communism and now , in some circles , the Jews for the failures of capitalism .
2 If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle .
3 LOGOS of firms who sponsor Arsenal and other top clubs are to appear on the shirts of Subbuteo table soccer ‘ players ’ .
4 DARLINGTON music groups are to travel across the Channel to entertain German counterparts .
5 However if all union currencies are to survive in the long run , member countries can not pursue monetary policies independently of each other .
6 The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during the Uniforum show in San Francisco next month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause ( UX Nos 415 , 423 ) .
7 Three Birmingham children 's homes are to close as the council attempts to bolster its foster service .
8 Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth .
9 They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons .
10 The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors .
11 If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round .
12 An alternative and equally fruitful approach to the study of power in organizations is to concentrate on the formal structure of authority and look for correspondence between this and patterns of social relations within the type of society in which the organization is located .
13 A slow but dramatic way of allocating roles is to come to the children ( probably gathered in a circle ) and ask them who 's who in role : " I 'm a stranger here .
14 This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one .
15 A large-scale exploration effort for new reserves was to begin under the terms of a TT$300,000,000 agreement reached in November 1989 between the US company Exxon , the French company Total and the state-owned companies , Trintoc and Trintopec .
16 In the coming months and years the question of castles was to remain in the forefront of everyone 's mind .
17 the end cha , the end of the chapter said that if parents were to re-take on the role of educating and disciplining children within the home
18 The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector .
19 I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth .
20 You need to go mad with your right foot before unpleasant noises being to emanate from the front end .
21 The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly .
22 Somewhat ironically , given the role bankers were to play in the conspiracy theory , she was the daughter of a director of Barclay 's Bank .
23 If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world .
24 Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions .
25 The columns were to merge in the Hammersmith Road at 6.30 , an hour and a half before the rally .
26 If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI .
27 One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses .
28 An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state .
29 What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly .
30 It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector .
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