Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 2 | And it 's surprising how reluctant people are to go to the police . |
| 3 | LOGOS of firms who sponsor Arsenal and other top clubs are to appear on the shirts of Subbuteo table soccer ‘ players ’ . |
| 4 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 5 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 6 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 7 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |
| 8 | And partly this is because the closer you get to concrete ‘ race relations ’ the less likely they are to conform to the models which have informed policy making . |
| 9 | If we 're to go outside the windows |
| 10 | The priority has been to buy off the ex-brigadiers of Hampshire . |
| 11 | This is affected by many things , most of which are to do with the interests and the values of the researcher , which are usually interrelated . |
| 12 | But we have said nothing yet about what you are to put in the notes . |
| 13 | The proportions in which partners are to share in the profits of the business will normally be set out in the partnership deed . |
| 14 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 15 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 16 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 17 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 18 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 19 | However , this argument was rejected in the House of Lords and Lord Wilberforce ( at p372 ) said that to : … suppose that the assignments were made not by way of sale but by way of security would be to impose upon the parties a form of transaction totally different from that which they had selectednamely , one of saleand of which there was no evidence whatsoever that either of them desired … |
| 20 | This chapter will have two aims , therefore : the first will be to look at the shades of difference and similarity between feminist approaches to education ; the second will be to ask whether , and in which ways , these approaches can inform our understanding of inequality in higher education . |
| 21 | Their tasks will be to win over the hearts of the doctors and teachers , while keeping the reform programme firmly on course . |
| 22 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 23 | On the next page we show how easy it will be to pile on the pounds tomorrow — and give you an alternative diet for the day . |
| 24 | The longer Everton are in the danger zone , the more difficult it will be to cast off the self-doubts and flow with confidence . |
| 25 | The second option will be to forget about the skills revolution for a while and concentrate on helping the unemployed . |
| 26 | The aims of the trust will be to build on the achievements , to become more responsive , to build a closer local link with the community and closer links with the health councils and with the GPs , to upgrade wards and facilities in the hospital , to upgrade theatres and equipment and to build on the success of recent years . |
| 27 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 28 | For the moment our principal concern will be to enquire into the forces which produce deviations of p , from , . |
| 29 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 30 | WESTERN Klick Photopoint will have their work cut out if they are to get among the medals in this season 's European Women 's Indoor Championships after losing 8-1 in their opening game to defending champions Russelsheim , in Berlin , last night . |