Example sentences of "the [noun prp] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Smallwoods were off to Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | He 's a highly talented rider with a hunger for success and if the Yamaha is up to it — and I 've no doubt that it is — than we could be celebrating a single figure placing tomorrow , and that really would be something . |
| 3 | But now that the GLC was about to be abolished and GLEB was in trouble , the paper , with Horsley 's enthusiastic support , decided to move to Manchester . |
| 4 | Leeds did well , but it looked as though top points would be shared with Huddersfield as , on the last Saturday of the tournament , the Peacocks were away to Bradford City while Huddersfield , two points behind , were home to Bradford ( Park Avenue ) . |
| 5 | The services provided by the NHS are there to be used . |
| 6 | The services provided by the NHS are there to be used . |
| 7 | Lesotho , Madagascar and Mauritius are in the process of implementing schemes ; Burkina Faso , Ghana , Rwanda and the Seychelles are about to . |
| 8 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 9 | Soon the stern anchor had been paid out and the Ariadne was back to where she had started , the buoy nudging the midships port side . |
| 10 | Mark takes the view that if the UK is not to be considered for other than economic reasons , then that 's a matter for the committee and the Corporation to decide . |
| 11 | Thus to be ‘ horned ’ among the Kaffirs is not to be meekly cuckolded . |
| 12 | If the WCC were not to be involved , then we would also have to fund air fares ( say £1000 ) . |
| 13 | I suppose they imagined we were going to expose their uninteresting little rackets , whereas I was only interested in what the Josephs were up to . ’ |
| 14 | After Die Entführung , the Singspiel was never to be the same again . |
| 15 | However , the concession to Jacques was made on a personal basis and clearly , the matter of his appointment as a joint secretary of the RAC was not to be considered . |
| 16 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 17 | Corbett noted that the bitter anger deep within the Prior was about to well over and tactfully he remained silent . |