Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , I am about to go to lunch . |
| 3 | specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch |
| 4 | I thought that they were about to come to fruition . |
| 5 | The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre . |
| 6 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 7 | It 's where to pay to money , and you 're having to go to the bank manager , what would he ask for ? the business plan , and you 'd have to draw that up and do all the and you have to impress the bank manager before he will even consider an overdraft facility , or whatever , a loan . |
| 8 | As Derrida ( 1978b , p. 234 ) noted , Artaudian theatre was not to refer to life or represent life but instead to be life . |
| 9 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 10 | They were equating ( and as Saunders points out this was later to lead to confusion ) Mead 's concern with the relations between self and society , with these relations as they were being constructed in specific geographical contexts such as Chicago or one of Chicago 's zones . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 12 | It meant that he was about to go to work . |
| 13 | She was looking forward to getting a flat of her own and was about to go to court in an attempt to regain custody of her daughter . |
| 14 | I was about to go to sleep . |
| 15 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |