Example sentences of "be [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 2 | No , you 're to go to bed . |
| 3 | ‘ Mat says you 're to come to dinner tonight and stay over . |
| 4 | If we are to point to government growth , then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to do something , ’ she answered sharply , ‘ unless we are to starve to death . ’ |
| 6 | The obvious thing seemed to be to retire to bed ; both women felt crushing exhaustion . |
| 7 | The danger here is that stand personnel 's time can be taken up talking to the converted , whereas the objective should be to seek to interest potential customers . |
| 8 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 9 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 10 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 12 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 13 | The fusion of the Asian and European conflicts was a gamble which could only come off if a successful blitzkrieg were to lead to negotiation . |
| 14 | These included Mr Miller , a farmer , the proud recipient of some pears and roses and advice from Mr Dickens , the advice being to stick to farming , not be an author or a poet . |
| 15 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 16 | Some of the 490 handlers , members of the Transport and General Workers Union , were to return to work at 7pm last night . |
| 17 | If the investor were to return to sterling at some time in the future , the rate of exchange might be such that the extra interest earned would be completely eroded away . |
| 18 | And if it 's determined that you are to return to work then your pension would actually will cease . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , Anne , the important thing is to go to court and accustom yourself to its ways , ’ she said practically . |
| 20 | That issue is to go to court . |
| 21 | Chief officers and chairs will begin the process of deciding the share of the budget that is to go to education , social services and housing in the light of the strategic analysis discussed above . |
| 22 | One possibility is to go to bed one to two hours later than normal each night and get up one to two hours later each morning . |
| 23 | If your stomach feels tender and you have a slight temperature ( cystitis is an infection ) the best remedy is to go to bed with a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel against your stomach . |
| 24 | That is to wear to bed ! |
| 25 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 26 | Mr Straw is to write to Transport Secretary John MacGregor urging a probe to discover why the vandals were n't spotted and whether cash cuts were to blame . |
| 27 | The proposal that drama somehow became more sophisticated with an interest in psychology adopted by Shakespeare and Jacobean dramatists is to come to Renaissance drama with a presumption that literary sophistication is the representation of psychological interiority , a view largely derived from the centrality of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels within a reading experience . |
| 28 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 29 | To his disappointment his old guv'nor took no notice at all , but , when the war was over , he was seen and overheard to draw Addison aside in the saleroom , saying : ‘ By the way , Addison , when you are in the army and you see an officer approaching on his horse , the correct thing is to stand to attention and salute , not jump about shouting ‘ aye , aye , sir ! ’ |
| 30 | Moreover , to maintain a tribe in being has always required acts of will , occasionally of violence , and to think of tribes as in some sense natural phenomena , inert until a civilizing , modernizing process is forced upon them , is to succumb to ideology . |