Example sentences of "be [to-vb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mission had been to penetrate a terrorist base in Libya and eliminate all personnel , which included Salim Al-Makesh , an advisor to the Black June , a movement founded by Abu Nidal in I976 in protest at the involvement of Syria in the Lebanese civil war , and Jean-Jacques Bernard , a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 2 | I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school . |
| 3 | I see that Durham County councillors are to impose a poll tax which is the maximum they can get away with within Government limits . |
| 4 | Their task had been to raid an enemy landing strip at Marble Arch , the British nickname for a vast triumphal arch erected by Mussolini in the middle of the desert to mark the border of Tripolitania . |
| 5 | Typical operations are to load an index register from a store location , to deposit the contents of an index register in a store location , and to increment or decrement an index register ( or to add the contents of a store location to an index register ) . |
| 6 | I 've heard that KING KURT have reformed and are to do a London gig . |
| 7 | How much more eager those warriors would have been to contact a foe face to face . |
| 8 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 9 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 10 | An obvious reform would be to institute a competition tribunal . |
| 11 | The major thrust in taxonomic computing should be to create a Herbarium database , incorporating image data , with ancillary programs for Herbarium management . |
| 12 | So the aim should be to create an Oxford Certificate/Portfolio/ Diploma for all students , moving into the world of work or higher education . |
| 13 | If you have sited the cold water storage cistern as high as possible , yet your shower still lacks pressure , then the answer will be to fit a shower booster pump . |
| 14 | So , my advice to Mr. Shaw would be to fit an overdrive unit , after the initial expense both he and his pocket will benefit . |
| 15 | In fact , the beauty all around was so breathtaking that , for the first time in his life , he actually caught himself thinking what a shame it would be to put a railway line here , to bring dirt and clamour to this Eden . |
| 16 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 17 | An attractive alternative would be to use a herringbone pattern |
| 18 | One possible way of overcoming some of these disadvantages of the official UK unemployment figures would be to adopt a survey method of measuring unemployment , similar to the method used in Australia or the United States . |
| 19 | The most modest proposal would be to place a cash limit on all the non-structural tax allowances ( that is , on all other than the personal allowances ) and to couple this policy to a commitment to use the increase in tax revenue which results to reducing the rate of tax and increasing child benefit . |
| 20 | One way of moving towards this would be to have a Council Tax Administration Team dealing with the same geographic area as a Council Tax Rebate Team . |
| 21 | A slightly more expensive cure would be to add a Diatom filter . |
| 22 | So would that be to add a little bit more money ? |
| 23 | One possibility would be to employ a space shuttle to build a large gamma-ray detector in orbit . |
| 24 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 25 | For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy . |
| 26 | The Government 's preferred option would be to introduce a prohibition system , under which the Director General of Fair Trading would investigate alleged breaches . |
| 27 | IN a new move to boost community relations in the region , North Wales Police are to appoint a Community officer to serve the Rhydwen Drive district of Rhyl . |
| 28 | The White House has announced that President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev are to hold a Superpower summit in America at the end of May . |
| 29 | They are to hold a site meeting . |
| 30 | The plans are to have a Deanery Communication Team , with representatives in every parish . |