Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to report immediately to Personnel for redeployment . |
| 2 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 4 | Raising the rig ( Figs 55 & 56 ) The main points here are to swim vigorously into wind , which will help release the water off the back of the sail , and lift the sail upwards and diagonally into the wind . |
| 5 | The defendants are to appear again on January 12 . |
| 6 | MR NEIL KINNOCK and Mr Roy Hattersley — elected on Labour 's so-called ‘ dream ’ leadership ticket almost nine years ago — will announce today that they are to stand down as leader and deputy leader . |
| 7 | Our job has always been to stand just between heaven and earth — to be neither pain nor joy , man nor woman , but to stand beyond the dualities which rule this world . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're to go back to Braine-le-Comte . |
| 9 | But they 're to concentrate also on car hire firms . |
| 10 | The punters are typically those C2 social groups whom , we are told , the Conservatives must retain if they are to do well on Thursday . |
| 11 | Hundreds more hospitals are to opt out of health service management and the Government wants to revamp the bureaucracy to cope with the changes . |
| 12 | LAURA PATTEN and her older sister Kate are to fly out to Hong Kong on December 20 to help their father , Governor Chris Patten , put aside local problems and enjoy a family Christmas . |
| 13 | If it is clear enough that capitalist development brings social planning of the economy closer to the realms of possibility than , say , peasant and artisanal production it should also be clear that socialists must pose and answer these questions if they are to intervene effectively in politics . |
| 14 | If we are to compete effectively in world markets and to communicate on equal terms with our European partners we need to increase substantially the numbers of young people leaving school with a good grounding in at least one foreign language . |
| 15 | Plus , I 've still got to write something witty to drag home , if I 'm to go back to employment that is . |
| 16 | To offer purely economic criteria for its identity would be to slide back into economism . |
| 17 | The alternatives would be to theorize exclusively in terms of neuronal processes ( impossibly fine-grained ) or in terms of drawing inferences from ‘ cues ’ ( inappropriately rational ) . |
| 18 | If the reason for travelling to work in the past was to get one 's hands on the work being done , then in the future , as many people 's work will be to deal primarily with information , the information can travel cheaply down the cables to the worker at home . |
| 19 | According to Tao , China 's post-1997 policy would be to deal leniently with Hong Kong residents who had opposed the transfer of sovereignty . |
| 20 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 21 | He was nursing his arm , his task seemed to be to keep close to Marian and prevent her making a dash for it . |
| 22 | Thus , the aim with most patients should be to move eventually from assessment and support into a problem-solving approach as described in Chapter 5 . |
| 23 | Given that prices are assumed to remain fixed , their reaction to the building up of stocks in the short-run will be to cut back on output and lay off workers , thereby creating DD unemployment . |
| 24 | The only way to compete with Third World and eastern bloc ships seems to be to cut back on crew rest hours and leave . |
| 25 | That is a reasonable proposition because , if the Minister is sincere , the last thing that he would want would be to rush in to sell-offs when the buy-out teams were not ready to participate . |
| 26 | So use your common sense if you are to finish up on top . |
| 27 | Appropriate opportunities for advancement ( promotion , better pay and other forms of recognition for increased skills and experience ) must be provided if we are to live up to principles of social and economic justice . |
| 28 | Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations . |
| 29 | There is still a lot of to work on if we are to get out of trouble , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ If we are to get there in time we must go at once , ’ Marian said . |