Example sentences of "be [to-vb] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 3 | Copy of a letter sent to all parents of pupils at Juniper Green Primary School stating the school is to receive a Schools Curriculum Award 1990 . |
| 4 | Toronto-based Unitel Communications Inc is to open a telecommunications centre in Winnipeg , Manitoba , by the end of the year , creating 400 jobs : the telemarketing and customer services centre will join the ones in Kamloops , British Columbia and in Edmundston , New Brunswick . |
| 5 | Our aim is to create a citizens ' Europe in which power lies as close to the citizen as possible . |
| 6 | One of the major methods of achieving a regional economic bloc is to create a Customs Union ( CU ) . |
| 7 | The simplest example of redundancy is to imagine a personnel record held in a computer system . |
| 8 | If a man is to infect a women with Trichomonas vaginalis , this is most likely to occur if he has intercourse with her fairly soon after he himself has acquired the infection . |
| 9 | There are many ways of estimating the quality of the benefit at the end of the plan but one simple one is to calculate an earnings ratio , given by the interest earned over the total sum — which is best expressed as a percentage . |
| 10 | In Glasgow , Grampian Holdings announced it is to close a pharmaceuticals plant , switching production and distribution to Leyland in Lancashire . |
| 11 | A common method is to operate a points system where the operative is awarded points related , for example , to his trade , position and length of service . |
| 12 | One of the first duties undertaken by Kajiyama was to observe a police operation in one of Tokyo 's most notorious areas of prostitution , on Sept. 20 , which resulted in the arrest of 45 foreign women who were accused of working as prostitutes . |
| 13 | The first aim of the NVALA was to establish a Viewers ' and Listeners ' Council which would consist of elected representatives of the ‘ churches , women 's organisations , magistrates , doctors , educationalists , parents , youth , social workers , police , political parties , local government and writers ’ . |
| 14 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , Xinhua announced that the China Great Wall Co. was to launch a communications satellite for Arabsat at the end of 1991 . |
| 15 | The basic aim was to create a customs union , with free and equal competition among the Six and a ‘ common external tariff ’ against the rest of the world . |
| 16 | The city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores a few hours before the Prime Minister , John Major , was to address a farmers conference 400 yards away . |
| 17 | In that case , Greenwich announced that it was to adopt an admissions policy which , in relation to over-subscribed schools , gave preference to those resident in Greenwich over those resident outside the borough . |
| 18 | The initial goal was to prototype a KBS support environment for workshop based test engineers . |
| 19 | There were all the other brothers and sisters , Edith who was good at arithmetic and sorted things out for all and sundry , David who was to become a police inspector , Hilda and Cassie who delighted in their roguish little brother — threepence here , sixpence there . |