Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present Labour MP in Barnsley West , Allen McKay , is to retire before the next general election . |
| 2 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 3 | ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 4 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 5 | He will start in Seoul , where he is to officiate at the 44th International Eucharistic Congress . |
| 6 | Their great day is to dawn in the next generation , for the novel becomes the great art form of the nineteenth century , from Los Angeles to New York , from London and Edinburgh to Moscow and Budapest . |
| 7 | The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence . |
| 8 | The technique is to allow through the first impressions that come to you . |
| 9 | There is hope for Hector 's , but it has certainly been saved from fishing nets at the last hour , and will need all the protection and help it can get if it is to survive through the next century . |
| 10 | The whole secret is to get over the first round and then improve your display for the next game . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 12 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
| 13 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 14 | The problem with being an astrologer is that everyone is always pestering you to find out what 's to happen in the next few days . |
| 15 | London is to feature as the next Spotlight in the September edition of Medau News and London teachers are asked to submit suggestions to Molly Hammond by 30th May at the latest . |
| 16 | The tendency of moral philosophers , thinks Moore , is to rush into the third question , without having dealt with the first two . |
| 17 | A trial programme of prescribing methadone is to begin in the next two weeks at Edinburgh 's Saughton prison . |