Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the anxiety of discovering where I was to sit in chapel ; then I had to learn the names and whereabouts of the different houses and of the scattered playing fields . |
| 2 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 3 | If she was to indulge in escapism , surely here would be as good a place as any ? |
| 4 | We must feel that the existing social arrangements allow for equal , or justifiably unequal , satisfaction of our other needs , if we are to believe in conformity . |
| 5 | We all need to belong to a group of people who believe , if we are to grow in faith . |
| 6 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 7 | The more parents understand the details of the curriculum content and methods of assessment , the more likely they are to act in partnership with teachers to foster pupil motivation and hard work . |
| 8 | They are to engage in appraisal of their own work , and attend in-service training . |
| 9 | So if they are to remain in business , they will require Albion . ’ |
| 10 | They are to appear in court again on April 21 . |
| 11 | At 2250 hrs that evening Eighth Army confirmed in a signal to 5 Corps that they were to act in accordance with AFHQ 's ruling that they could hand over all the anti-Tito Yugoslavs so long as this did not involve use of force . |
| 12 | If they were to live in peace it was necessary , he said , that the Indians should have a country set apart for them and in that country they must stay . |
| 13 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 14 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 15 | They were to be wandering years , but they were to end in triumph . |
| 16 | The change would take effect at the end of his present term ( 1965 ) or before then , if he were to die in office . |
| 17 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 18 | The other indicator of resale potential is quality , and , as a general rule , the higher the quality of a rug , the more likely it is to increase in value . |
| 19 | Most important , the party knows it must improve the country 's living standards if it is to stay in power . |
| 20 | An object 's class therefore defines the inherent LIFESPAN process model which an object will follow , whereas the user defined process model ( which it is to follow in parallel ) may be defined for its type and subtype . |
| 21 | He too must drive off rivals once his older patron is gone if he is to remain in possession of his inherited females . |
| 22 | Like all Ministers , the Home Secretary must maintain the Prime Minister 's confidence if he is to continue in office . |
| 23 | He is to star in Death Wish Five and plans to go on to Death Wish Six and Seven . |
| 24 | He is to appear in court again in Belfast on September 15 . |
| 25 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 26 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 27 | It was one of the conditions the Colonel laid down if he was to remain in hospital . ’ |
| 28 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 29 | He commented then , what he was to say in print later , that while he found Maritain a most charming man , his philosophical work , though claiming to reflect at every point Thomist orthodoxy , was in spirit quite unlike that of St Thomas : by which I presume he meant that Maritain had converted Thomas Aquinas into a French intellectual . |
| 30 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |