Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 3 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 4 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 5 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 7 | The more such errors appear in the learning process , the more likely they are to appear later in the use of the language . |
| 8 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 9 | Scotland must take their chances in London against a side that has been the most consistent for the last few years if they are to come away with the spoils of victory . |
| 10 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 11 | at how we 're to go forward in the future an and improve the service |
| 12 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 13 | If we 're to go home through the fields by the shore — what did you call-them , Meg ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 15 | However , if surveyors are to keep up with the inevitable changes taking place , they must become familiar with the new contracts . |
| 16 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 17 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 18 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 19 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 20 | The first priority tomorrow must be to come away from the game with at least a point . |
| 21 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 22 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 24 | Failing this , the most accurate method would be to drill through within the area of the proposed opening and , with an assistant , measure the depth . |
| 25 | Better still , would be to think again about the best sort of accommodation for these sensitive areas . |
| 26 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 27 | Once inside , their objective would be to make directly for the basement as speedily as possible , to seize and hold the Control Room , thus preventing the detonation of the fire bombs . |
| 28 | Instructions are to hang in between the taps and any trapped spider will climb up it and away to other parts . |
| 29 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 30 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |