Example sentences of "be [adv] to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 2 | Now the camera begins to move down her body , over her breasts , which are lightly beaded ( and quite widely separated ) although it is hard to tell in the chiaroscuro created , as we are soon to find out , by the shutters of the apartment . |
| 3 | Well , you do n't tell two old people that a year and a bit too late you 're out to find what the sticking power of their son will be when it comes to the choicer interrogation techniques of KGB . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what we 're about to find out . |
| 5 | except one person in Land who we 're yet to find ! |
| 6 | In the meantime , I am off to find a loose brick in the local bandstand as a suitable ‘ post box ’ to match the latest Revenue regime in my area . |
| 7 | Steps are underway to find a coordinator for the service , and to appoint members to the ENS board . |
| 8 | I 'm off to find a patch of me own . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm here to find single women , ’ admitted a computer scientist from Bell Labs , peering at my label , New Scientist ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm here to find the Oldenburgs . |
| 11 | Lucky England and Scotland : there is , as Wales know and Ireland are about to find out , simply no chance to rebuild when New Zealand are your regular opposition . |
| 12 | Things have not changed : as Cardiff are about to find , these All Blacks are at once an irresistible force and immovable object . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what the authorities are there to find out . |
| 14 | We were not to find out . |
| 15 | We both know that if you were ever to find yourself in such an influential position , my sister 's inheritance would not long remain her own . ’ |
| 16 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 17 | The only methods available to do this were either to find cheaper sources of raw materials , squeeze labour 's wages or increase the technological composition of the productive process . |
| 18 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 19 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 20 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 21 | And a very good way of doing that is obviously to find suitable outlets , and I would suggest that suitable outlets very often consist of local radio , which there is a thirst , on the whole , for good , appropriate items . |
| 22 | The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication . |
| 23 | The aim is not to find an expert , but somebody who will pass callers on to experts . |
| 24 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 25 | The problem is not to find them , but to select and order them comprehensibly . |
| 26 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 27 | In all the circumstances I consider that the proper course is not to find if there 's any windfall element of the plaintiff 's parents and therefore to ignore such arguments . |
| 28 | yes alright well let's leave that one and let's see and I stand corrected , but my point remains the same if er , erm , er my duty under article five is not to find to the anti competition laws is it ? |
| 29 | This is one of the great fascinations of being involved with living things , of discovering that the more one gets to know about natural things , the more there is still to find out . |
| 30 | There are something like 50,000 individual genes providing the genetic blueprint for each individual , and our task is really to find out where each one is on human chromosomes and to isolate them and to characterise them . |