Example sentences of "be [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season ’ |
| 32 | The secret of potted gardens is to remember to water and feed them throughout the growing season . |
| 33 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 34 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 35 | Isabelle and Eric 's idea of a good night is to listen to music together or for Eric to write his poetry at the coffee table . |
| 36 | Consideration should be given to the question whether " damage " is to be restricted to physical damage or is to extend to loss of profits caused by disturbance of the tenant 's business . |
| 37 | The higher the tax rate the more incentive there is to give to charity . |
| 38 | The lower the tax rate the more costly it is to give to charity compared to ordinary spending . |
| 39 | The aim of the project is to contribute to knowledge and understanding of the organisation and management of animal experimentation in Britain , of the changing social . |
| 40 | The solution , of course , is to switch to manual and do the job yourself , using the ‘ zoom in to telephoto ’ routine ( see page 24 ) . |
| 41 | If the primary purpose of the thesis is to add to knowledge , then failure to publish suggests that nothing new has been added . |
| 42 | If the primary purpose of the thesis is to add to knowledge , then failure to publish suggests that nothing new has been added . |
| 43 | A CASH-HIT council is to repay to war widows additional relief on rents and poll tax charges that it withheld in error . |
| 44 | All I want is to get to bed as soon as possible . ’ |
| 45 | HOW TO PLAY — The object of the game is to get to Number 10 Downing Street at the centre of the board . |
| 46 | If the system is to return to profitability , some must merge ( or fail ) . |
| 47 | This means that the best solution is to upgrade to Release 3.1+ . |
| 48 | The only ‘ sanction ’ against them is to resort to world public opinion' ( Cassese , 1979 , p. 165 ) . |
| 49 | The object is to bring to light everything that is good and anything that is bad . |
| 50 | LEVITATION , Terry Bickers ' experimental spacerock outfit , are to sign to Chrysalis . |
| 51 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 52 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 53 | And now Artemis was to go to tea downstairs with her father . |
| 54 | Hence half of the common lands was to go to war veterans and the propertyless . |
| 55 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 56 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 57 | ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . ) |
| 58 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 59 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 60 | The only hope was to move to energy self-sufficiency . |