Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Straw is to write to Transport Secretary John MacGregor urging a probe to discover why the vandals were n't spotted and whether cash cuts were to blame . |
| 2 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 3 | And now Artemis was to go to tea downstairs with her father . |
| 4 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 5 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 6 | ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . ) |
| 7 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |