Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were to remain where they were — wherever that was the parents were to remain in ignorance , with the children still isolated . |
| 2 | If the recent pattern of population change observed in many developing countries were to continue without modification then , in a few decades , there would be some impossibly large populations . |
| 3 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 4 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 5 | His initial duties were to assist with fieldwork for the magnetic survey of India and by the 1908–9 field season he was in charge of operations in south-west India . |
| 6 | Secondary analyses were to include within group comparisons of arrhythmias , oxygen saturation , pulse rate , and blood pressure between the pre , per , and postgastroscopy periods , using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test for the frequecy of arrhythmias , and the Students t test for the remaining normally distributed data . |
| 7 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 8 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 9 | The rump of Die-hard support around the Boswell publishing concerns was to survive as part of an underground tradition . |
| 10 | If expatriates are to live in company housing , details of this , including rent and the items of furniture supplied should be explained . |
| 11 | The teams were to operate by consensus , each having the power to veto decisions , none with the power to impose . |
| 12 | These committees were to work in concert with the police and with the KGB ( which , under a Nov. 23 USSR Supreme Soviet resolution , had already been given the responsibility of ensuring that food aid from abroad did not fall into the hands of speculators ) . |
| 13 | They are engaged in a kind of war game and one of their principal aims is to move with impunity in the sections of stadia favoured by home fans like themselves and to establish momentary control over the city centre pubs and other areas favoured by their home counterparts . |
| 14 | A convoy of lorries is to travel with food and medical supplies to Albania , one of the most deprived countries in Europe . |
| 15 | His purpose in these pamphlets was to describe in detail his proposals for the layout of buildings in which , with a minimum of formal rules and supervisory staff , large numbers of people could be kept under constant surveillance ( Hume , 1973 p 706 ) . |
| 16 | The three partners are to remain in contact to maintain a watching brief and to prepare a document outlining ideas for future management of the property . |
| 17 | Those orders were to remain in force until the next hearing on 31 January 1992 . |
| 18 | While the charters were being drawn up , the existing relations between landlords and serfs were to remain in place . |
| 19 | However , if the GPs were to act as Health Maintenance Organizations ( HMOs ) and have a budget to cover the total care for their patients , a Type I system would give them considerable freedom of referral , but would not necessarily increase the patients ' freedom . |
| 20 | NEIGHBOURS is to stay on TV screens until at least 1995 after BBC chiefs made a U-turn over their plan to axe the Australian soap . |
| 21 | Much of the interaction in these situations is to do with persuasion . |
| 22 | Therefore , deduct a fraction from your finished length measurement unless the curtains are to act as draught excluders . |
| 23 | Varese 's Arcana needs equal pains if its enormous forces are to operate with clarity . |
| 24 | The subsection provides that , for the purpose of such proceedings , the original board members are to remain in office . |
| 25 | STUDENT leaders are to campaign against Government proposals expected today which will curb drastically the powers and public funding of student associations . |
| 26 | The Heartbreakers were to fall from grace with violent rapidity towards the end of 1977 , only to re-emerge as cult heroes in 1984 . |
| 27 | What had occurred was an unprecedented box-office slump in which eventually a third of America 's movie-houses were to close and giant film corporations were to plunge into debt . |
| 28 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 29 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 30 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |