Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 2 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 3 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 4 | Which which company if I was to give you a choice , and the luxury that most recruiters do n't have . |
| 5 | Erm if I was to give you an option a choice of which market area you think you would be most happy with , where do you think ? |
| 6 | If I was to enter it a number , one O two . |
| 7 | You are to keep it a secret , Theodosia . |
| 8 | You are to make yourself the master of a particular sub-topic or sub-sub-topic rather than prepare for the year 's examination in the whole subject . |
| 9 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 10 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 11 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 12 | ‘ If you were to give me a ha'penny I might tell you different ’ |
| 13 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 14 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 15 | It is very important to get the facts if we are to contemplate what the police should be for controlling and preventing crime . |
| 16 | ‘ Uncle Albert says we 're to note what the light beams do , and see if anything changes as we accelerate . |
| 17 | Through these discriminations of time , space and substances , they are to make themselves a holy people , set apart from the unholy people and things . |
| 18 | I do n't know what mine are to tell you the truth . |
| 19 | One of the reasons for arranging it is to give you the chance to be responsible for your own learning while you are on the placement . |
| 20 | One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums . |
| 21 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 22 | It is to save them the need to refer to the very foundations of morality and practical reasoning generally in every case . |
| 23 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 24 | Alternatively they may say : ‘ We think the best way to do it is to follow what the local authority have said you are to do ’ . ’ |
| 25 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 26 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |