Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE British embassies are to open in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia , the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , announced last night . |
| 2 | Another aspect of improving quality will be to focus on the many areas where problems of poverty and unemployment will persist if special measures are not taken . |
| 3 | The advancing edge or step is now twice the normal height and so would require twice the amount of new material if it were to advance at the same rate as the other layers . |
| 4 | all quantities were to alter by the same factor from 1976 to 1981 , or |
| 5 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 6 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 7 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 8 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 9 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 10 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 11 | If everyone is to move at the same time , the new premises need to be ready in their entirety to house all the people and equipment being moved . |
| 12 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 13 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |
| 14 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 15 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |
| 16 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 17 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 18 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 19 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 20 | Elizabeth was to return to the same church for her own wedding five years later ; she and young Benjamin Titford were married there on 24 January 1808 . |