Example sentences of "be [to-vb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 2 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 3 | It is especially in East Greece that in the middle and later sixth century engravers ( like two Samians , Theodoros and Mnesarchos , father of the philosopher Pythagoras ) produce the first tiny masterpieces of this art which is to flourish on through classical and Hellenistic times . |
| 4 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 5 | O&M 's current chairman and ceo Graham Phillips is to stay on as vice chairman . |
| 6 | My objective is to move on to fresh ground and not have to return to this particular patch . |
| 7 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 8 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 9 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 10 | He was to live on until 1832 , when he died , aged 58 described as being of the Lower Market Place . |
| 11 | Edith was to live on until 1928 , dying in Bath . |
| 12 | The war between them was to drag on until 1364 , a period of some twenty years . |