Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These stated that Angell and Pownall were to consider the competition conditions , and to : |
| 2 | And if Richard were to resign the duchy then some interesting prospects would open up . |
| 3 | Rupert Murdoch is to reduce the price of The Times newspaper to thirty pence . |
| 4 | THE ATTORNEY General Sir Nicholas Lyell is to review the sentence of a sex offender who was spared jail after a judge said his eight-year-old victim was ‘ not entirely an angel . ’ |
| 5 | RENAULT is to cut the workforce at its Renault Vehicules Industriels subsidiary by 1,000 . |
| 6 | But though this sense of chivalry endured throughout the war , Verdun was to spell the end of the solitary ace and single combat . |
| 7 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 8 | Restoration of political harmony was essential , however , if Edward was to continue the war in France , and in re-establishing good relations between the king and the nobility the Earl of Derby seems to have played an important role . |
| 9 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 10 | A consortium of British Aerospace , GEC-Marconi and British Telecom is to operate the satellite which will beam programmes from space directly to small ‘ dishes ’ on houses and in back gardens . |
| 11 | Last October it persuaded Moody 's to maintain the credit rating on its long-term debt . |
| 12 | The need to harness and utilise such skills becomes an urgent priority if the NHS is to survive the recruitment and retention crisis so talked about in the late 1980s . |
| 13 | Two lines of development are necessary if IBM is to keep the performance of the Rios RISC competitive at the same time as extending the range downwards with the single chip PowerPC , the company says — and Rios 2 will drive forward both the integer and floating point performance of Rios , adds IBM . |
| 14 | The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook is happy to describe himself as a socialist on many occasions , although the advice from Mr. Mandelson is to drop the word . |
| 15 | The only way to coax capital back to Russia is to stabilise the economy . |
| 16 | At such moments the commentating voice differs sufficiently from Nietzsche 's to make the mode of paraphrase unavailable : The intrusive authorial voice here asks the reader to stand back with him and construe Nietzsche for the purposes of his own argument . |
| 17 | Our overriding objective in Northern Ireland is to eliminate the evil of terrorism . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought Benedict was to have the house , ’ Theda uttered without thinking . |
| 19 | Mountbatten was to propose the toast to the Navy , I to the guests . |
| 20 | Dunbar was to run the art gallery attached to the shop , Miles would take care of the books . |
| 21 | George Craigen 's first duty as President of the London Centre of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland was to present the Centre 's inter-bank quiz trophy to some colleagues from the Royal Bank ! |
| 22 | Royal Doulton and Wedgwood are to produce the tableware for the restaurant and banqueting facilities at the new Queens Moat House ( QMH ) hotel in Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire . |
| 23 | Horner Collis & Kirvan media director Bob Wootton is to leave the agency — a further repercussion of the merger with Colman RSCG . |
| 24 | NISSAN IS TO CUT the number of model variants on sale in the UK after posting its first worldwide financial loss for 41 years . |
| 25 | Crucially , the CEGB was to lose the ownership of the national transmission grid . |
| 26 | Banharn Silpa-Archa , Minister of the Interior , issued a statement on June 27 claiming that Chaovalit was to join the Chart Thai Party ( the main component of the ruling coalition ) led by Prime Minister Chatichai . |
| 27 | But to meet Williams was to make the belief yet more inescapable . |
| 28 | The Copts would object very strongly if Owen were to invade the church ; but if Mahmoud did it they would riot . |
| 29 | Of course , if a black hole as close as Pluto were to reach the end of its life and blow up , it would be easy to detect the final burst of emission . |
| 30 | One writer has made the observation : ‘ To study either nationalism or the press in British West Africa is to study the other . ’ |