Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 3 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 7 | Hence half of the common lands was to go to war veterans and the propertyless . |
| 8 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |