Example sentences of "[be] to form a " in BNC.

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1 Hence if we are to form a constitutive relation for the material of the rod it must not contain the dimensions . )
2 In addition , it prescribes a national curriculum , consisting of up to eleven foundation subjects , three or four of which are to form a core .
3 One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds .
4 The ill-fated advertisements were to form a preliminary campaign , costing £100,000 , as a prelude to a major campaign in the coming financial year .
5 On this committee , any three members of the Odiham Society were to form a quorum .
6 Colleagues he had worked with all over the world were to form a network of stringers .
7 At run time , given a tagged sequence of words the parser uses the training data to assess how likely a combination of adjacent tags were to form a noun phrase .
8 Once in position they were to form a cordon , await his radio command , then beat their way back towards the highway , creating as much disturbance as possible with their flashlights and guns to drive any fugitives ahead of them .
9 Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there .
10 ‘ Well , my plan 's to form a British chapter of the Monkey Wrench Gang and blow the bugger to pieces .
11 The Royal Marsden should be based solely at the Sutton site and should combine with St George 's to form a new Trust .
12 What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand .
13 The first thing to do is to form a realistic picture of how you want your physical shape to change .
14 Degussa ( ceramic colours and special products division ) is to form a joint venture with a leading Japanese manufacturer of printing inks and ceramic glass colours T&K Toka .
15 Perhaps the best way to ensure that this happens regularly is to form a Christian group of some sort which meets in your school , maybe at lunch-time .
16 Stand-offs on the forward cross spar provide positive if angular camber to form an aerofoil , but if used to force a batten into such a profile , the effect of further stand-offs from the rear cross-spars on the same batten is to form a gentle reflex , not unlike the wing section of a soaring bird .
17 One of his immediate suggestions is to form a committee composed of all previous Pumas coaches to find solutions , but this is unpopular even among the coaches themselves .
18 No suppliers need apply , CUE accepts only users and its aim in life is to form a united front of users against the tyranny of the industry : call Rob Briggs +44 273 481859 .
19 The first principle in the Society 's three main objects is to form a nucleus of humanity , the Universal Brotherhood , without distinction of race , creed , sect , caste or colour .
20 His intention is to form a complete collection , covering the whole of his working life , so that he will have a real store of memories to look back upon in his old age .
21 His obsession is to form a community loyal to the Aten , away from this city .
22 War erupts — it is to form a bloody backdrop for most of the decade .
23 Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis .
24 The answer was to form a more tight-knit operations board consisting of the partners running the regional offices and a separate functional board to deal with broader issues .
25 The policy of the French was to form a small native élite , known as évolués , who learned their language and culture .
26 Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage .
27 On 20 April Scottish Equitable announced that it was to form a ‘ partnership ’ with a giant Dutch insurance company , Aegon .
28 Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party .
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