Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EMF have strenuously denied stories suggesting they are to split after their current UK tour . |
| 2 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 3 | This is the holistic way of dealing with the problems with which we are all going to have to cope , whether those problems are to do with our physical , emotional or mental well-being . |
| 4 | One solution would be to keep on your old endowment , and take out a new one to top it up . |
| 5 | Once this was conceded , the next step would be to move to their becoming semi-independent public bodies ( much the same might happen to hospitals and other public services ) , with the ‘ freedom to manage ’ without regard to political pressure from local electors or ‘ vested interests ’ ( trade unions and professionals ) and the freedom to cut labour costs ( the main item in service budgets ) by paying people only what it was necessary to pay them in that local market . |
| 6 | In summary , cooperation is still necessary if trade , output , and employment are to develop to their full potential . |
| 7 | Born in Belgium in 1903 , he easily acquired the sexual habits which were to lead to his eventual boast to have slept with 10,000 women — 8,000 of them prostitutes . |
| 8 | The 29ft 6in columns of North Leith Church were to reappear at his great Classical mansion of Camperdown seven years later . |
| 9 | and that the reverse would be the case if we were to move from our free enterprise and initiative policy to a policy whereby state nationalisation took over Northern Electric in York , Yorkshire Water , British Telecom and other similar companies ? |
| 10 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |
| 11 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 12 | In 1989 the Home Affairs Select Committee announced that the work of the Police Complaints Authority is to come under its formal scrutiny and investigation . |
| 13 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best way to use dowsing in Earth Mysteries is to look for something definite — a lost markstone , for example , or an alignment . |
| 15 | One of the ways of understanding long-gone societies is to look at their cultural artifacts . |
| 16 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 17 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 18 | A more reliable method of sexing an individual is to look at its inner three fingers . |
| 19 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 20 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 21 | His ambition , of course , is to challenge for his old place in the second row of the Irish scrum . |
| 22 | What a pleasure it always is to hear from my sole mate Mollie O'Finn from Bo'ness . |
| 23 | It 's to do with your everyday life , and it 's to do with this , and that , and the other , and translate that into other things . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know why that is — perhaps it 's to do with our national characteristics . |
| 25 | On pages 206 — 211 we give some sample ready-planned daily menus made up from these meals , to show you how easy it is to keep to your preferred eating pattern and daily dieting calorie allowance . |
| 26 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 27 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 28 | One principal target of this non-political group is to capitalise on their public profiles to raise consumer consciousness , while putting pressure on the powers-that-be to reveal the extent to which pesticides are used — preferably through comprehensive labelling of all foods . |
| 29 | What he does is to disbelieve in his previous world view because of needs which his previous world view can no longer answer . |
| 30 | Perhaps the way forward from the potential abyss that local government could face is to return to its initial values of pluralism , public participation and local choice . |