Example sentences of "he be [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change would take effect at the end of his present term ( 1965 ) or before then , if he were to die in office . |
| 2 | He too must drive off rivals once his older patron is gone if he is to remain in possession of his inherited females . |
| 3 | Like all Ministers , the Home Secretary must maintain the Prime Minister 's confidence if he is to continue in office . |
| 4 | He is to star in Death Wish Five and plans to go on to Death Wish Six and Seven . |
| 5 | He is to appear in court again in Belfast on September 15 . |
| 6 | It was one of the conditions the Colonel laid down if he was to remain in hospital . ’ |
| 7 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 8 | He commented then , what he was to say in print later , that while he found Maritain a most charming man , his philosophical work , though claiming to reflect at every point Thomist orthodoxy , was in spirit quite unlike that of St Thomas : by which I presume he meant that Maritain had converted Thomas Aquinas into a French intellectual . |
| 9 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 10 | He was to keep in touch with Charity by telephone . |
| 11 | Under the scrutiny of Hayward and Browne , he began to revise and concentrate his verse — after the problems with The Family Reunion , he wished to use only poetry which met the test of " strict dramatic utility " although at a later date he was to worry in case he had strayed too close to the drama of Frederick Lonsdale . |