Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 2 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just thinking how lucky I am to have a wife like you . ’ |
| 4 | But if I am to have a horse it must be Han Ch'in 's . |
| 5 | ‘ So I am to have no privacy ? ’ she said flatly . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , how very lucky I am to have an assistant with her feet planted so very firmly on the ground ! |
| 7 | You have already second , but I was going to second it , and say how very pleased I am to have the opportunity to second it . |
| 8 | I am to become a grandmother . ’ |
| 9 | If I am to find a criticism , it is in the rather erratic organisation of the material . |
| 10 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 11 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 12 | Are you pleased with me — that I 'm to manage the London branch of the Maison de Verveine ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well then , Miss Polly , if I 'm to have the pleasure of your company on an outing it will have to be soon . |
| 14 | It seems unlikely that I 'm to construct a generation of broad based , supporters of . |
| 15 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 16 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 17 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 18 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 19 | And erm , if I were to stop every time I heard a car go by , I 'd be stopping all the time , erm , to some extent , it becomes a part of your pattern of existence . |
| 20 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it would be helpful if I were to explain the background to the Government 's overall policy on the financial support of full-time students . |
| 22 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 23 | ‘ So if I were to screen a feature film for you , and in it there was a scene that took place with two characters talking on a sofa , you would be able to tell me whether there was an object lying behind it ? ’ |
| 24 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 25 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 26 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 27 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 28 | " Suppose I were to break the bones in my wings , and then fly to the top of the mountain and back . |
| 29 | Understand this , though — if I were to dispute the matter with you , I would win . |
| 30 | Well , if I were to run the car backwards for long enough then obviously that would do it . |