Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred jobs are to go at a medical factory over the next two years . |
| 2 | Almost a hundred jobs are to go at a lift-making factory . |
| 3 | THE Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are to go on a major visit to the Caribbean next February and March . |
| 4 | CROWN prosecutors are to appeal against a lenient sentence imposed on a rapist whose victim died after the attack . |
| 5 | We apologise for the outspokenness of this letter , but it is felt that if we are to continue as a national organisation of good standing , we must put our house in order before it is too late . |
| 6 | DRIVERS in East Anglia are to benefit from a major increase in road maintenance investment in 1993/4 . |
| 7 | Clearly in this arid region with its brief period of insect food availability for raising young such assistance is vital if both sexes are to participate in a successful breeding ( Crook and Butterfield 1970 ) . |
| 8 | X/Open Co Ltd , Unix International and Japan 's Joint System Development Corp , a technical standards group , are to participate in a four-year project to research and develop technology for testing open systems software in Japan . |
| 9 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 10 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 11 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 12 | Meanwhile it 's been announced that Smith Industries , the areospace contractors based in Gloucestershire , are to share in a two hundred and thirty five million pound contract from Romania . |
| 13 | ONE of the most popular Liverpool 60s bands , The Dennisons , are to reform for a one-off tribute to their late bass guitarist , Terry ‘ Tex ’ Carson , who died of multiple sclerosis last year . |
| 14 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 15 | However , the key to the avoidance of uncontrolled complexity in any engineering domain may be to go for a complete and as rigorous as possible a description of the problem in hand before any detailed calculations are made on the precise properties of the postulated design . |
| 16 | I 'm to stand in a huge foil-wrapped box , the sides of which collapse in a puff of smoke at the touch of a remote control button held by Jim . |
| 17 | It 's difficult to be to comment on a hypothetical situation . |
| 18 | It may be to do with a certain understandable nervousness because they are so far away from the London scene . |
| 19 | He kept thinking how nice it would be to lie in a hot bath and soak out the cold and the dirt . |
| 20 | Here I just want to concentrate on what may be required if we are to shift to a different mode of argumentation . |
| 21 | If services are to develop in a needs-led way , of course , such information is vital . |
| 22 | Such prodigality makes little appeal to professional scientists , whose instincts are to seek for a tight and economic understanding of the world . |
| 23 | Whatever the reasons for these changes , be they because of a hostile government , new technology or the European dimension , we must respond and change if we are to survive as a creditable organization . |
| 24 | Negotiations were to continue on a further facility to replace the existing one when it expired in October . |
| 25 | In July , McGovern , supported by Campbell Stephen , had openly stated the necessity of such a return if the ILP were to continue as a significant organization . |
| 26 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 27 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 28 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 29 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 30 | By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives . |