Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To get anger in perspective , it helps to see how many positive references there are to anger in the Bible .
2 Cleveland police are to object to the transfer of a licence for Henry Afrika 's nightclub in Norton Road , Stockton when the case is heard next month .
3 Sixty jobs are to go at the Dowty Seals factory at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire .
4 About 600 jobs are to go at the corporation — about 30 per cent of the workforce — affecting staff at all levels .
5 Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ .
6 Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ .
7 Twelve hundred and twenty jobs are to go with the closure of the Ravenscraig steel works in Scotland .
8 42 jobs are to go with the closure of accountacy firm KPMG Peat Marwick in Cheltenham .
9 Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth .
10 ‘ You are to go to the river . ’
11 Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 .
12 Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 .
13 Now his MC and other wartime awards are to go under the hammer as receivers sell his belongings to pay creditors .
14 DIAMONDS , gems and jewellery recovered from one of the biggest robberies in history are to go under the hammer .
15 Coats and shoebags are to go in the cloakroom .
16 Nearly two and a half thousand jobs are to go in the motor industry , the majority at Ford , the remainder at Vauxhall .
17 Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light .
18 ‘ Tax changes are going to have to be carefully considered if we are to continue on the path to recovery . ’
19 Although I have stressed the importance of all children having access to the full primary curriculum , it must be recognised that some children do need special provision , more time , and/or extra help if they are to profit from the opportunity .
20 This may mean we need younger managers , if we are to capitalize on the correlation of ‘ helicopter ’ ability with managerial performance .
21 ‘ They are to remain in the Circle under arms and defend the Rorim so that the Hearthwares will be freed for duties beyond the wall . ’
22 It is usually the case that the primaries are geographically distinct and , since not all are to appear in the sample , there is a clear administrative advantage over a sampling scheme involving the whole population of secondaries .
23 Further , the user will be able to select the status of SPRs/SSRs that are to appear in the report and will also be able to limit the report to only those modules which appear in the Root Package itself .
24 I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year .
25 But the most positive news is that scheduled services to London are to restart in the Spring , following British Midland 's suspension of its Heathrow service in early 1991 .
26 The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during the Uniforum show in San Francisco next month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause ( UX Nos 415 , 423 ) .
27 If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative .
28 His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world .
29 Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction .
30 The emphasis in such systems has been to concentrate on the representation , organisation and use of linguistic knowledge as encapsulated and expressed by linguistic rules and procedures .
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