Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as I can spare you , you are to go over there and make the place habitable . |
| 2 | Councillors need to be very strong-minded , and in some circumstances foolhardy , if they are to go against strongly offered professional opinions . |
| 3 | What I really would have liked would have been to disappear with as little fuss as possible . |
| 4 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 5 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 6 | The ability to produce program listings or print out text must come very high on any Spectrum owners list of priorities if they are to progress beyond just playing other people 's games . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , draw the curtains back — if you 're to wait in here . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Watson called me up to her window , miss , and says you 're to go over there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're to go at once to the vicar 's study , ’ she announced . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're to meet in here , the four of you , after dinner , and I will introduce you to Miss Bedwelty . ’ |
| 11 | And the passage we are to look at today made me ask several ‘ Why ? ’ questions , and in the next few minutes , I want to try and share the questions … and some answers … with you . |
| 12 | Children from working-class backgrounds have a greater need of education than other children if they are to compete on more equal terms in the labour market . |
| 13 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 14 | However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street . |
| 15 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 16 | They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are . |
| 17 | The objective should be to get at least one overseas visitor from each Overseas Group into each of the eight Regions within any two year period . |
| 18 | The aim of the whole May Day event will be to raise at least £1,800 for the Queen Elizabeth Centre which , as part of the Upper Hamble Country Park , provides outdoor activity holidays for children with special needs . |
| 19 | They were to proceed from here on foot . |
| 20 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , the Nikkei index were to fall by just 20% from its mid-February level , it would leave a total of $114 billion-worth out of the money . |
| 22 | and people were to come in here on the Tuesday . |
| 23 | The Liberal Democrat government of Kiichi Miyazawa had stated in its budget proposal [ see p. 38820 ] that total government outlays were to increase by only 2.7 per cent over fiscal 1991 , to 72,220,000 million yen , in response to the general worsening in the economic climate . |
| 24 | And they 're lovely young people they were to work with really . |
| 25 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
| 26 | The bishops were to look for exactly these deficiencies ; synods were to be held ; the clergy were to be better educated , responsible and not ignorant . |
| 27 | But if she were to look for ever and a day , she would not find it . |
| 28 | ‘ And if you were to look in here , ’ and he pointed to his side , where an ancient oak chest , bound with brass braces and secured with a giant lock and key stood , ‘ you would find Møn 's Book of Legends , in which the massacre is chronicled in words by two contemporary survivors . |
| 29 | Some occupations were to last for almost six months , but the end results were always the same : army operations to destroy the crops and the murder of the leaders involved . |
| 30 | This was the first formal treaty in the continuing saga which later generations were to refer to wistfully as ‘ the Auld Alliance ’ . |