Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His orders are to kill as many people as he can , ’ I answered . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 3 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 4 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 5 | Cos even when I , I 've been to see like , you know ones I just sit there and tend to go , yeah . |
| 6 | The external auditor should review the work of the internal audit staff to determine their effectiveness in assisting management to improve the quality of information that is necessary if they are to monitor satisfactorily the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmes under their charge . |
| 7 | A major contribution of the discipline has been to emphasise how the identification and designation of a particular phenomenon or pattern of behaviour as a ‘ social problem ’ is not an unambiguous matter , but a process of social definition . |
| 8 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 9 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 10 | I am to report immediately to Personnel for redeployment . |
| 11 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 12 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 13 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 14 | The most obvious result of such ‘ cuts ’ has been to affect most adversely those without any other pension provision , and has led to an increase in the numbers claiming means-tested support . |
| 15 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 16 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You are to go downstairs and repeat your confession to Sir John . ’ |
| 18 | The length of nails , in relation to the thickness of the wood they are to go through , can be discussed and reasons for the protrusion of nails arrived at . |
| 19 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 20 | Loans from these institutions can not be rescheduled or written off if countries are to go on borrowing . |
| 21 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 22 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 23 | Tests on patients are to go ahead this year . |
| 24 | The republics are to go ahead with economic-reform plans of their own on the basis of the now changing programme . |
| 25 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
| 26 | Shocked animal lovers have protested to the ministry , but the tests are to go ahead . |
| 27 | ABERDEEN fish processors are to go ahead with an export drive to France this week , in spite of attempts by French fishermen to block the import of supplies . |
| 28 | ALL major social security benefits are to go up by 3.6 per cent in line with inflation from next April . |
| 29 | In an unusual departure , the rises will not begin to take effect until next year , but petrol and cigarette prices are to go up immediately . |
| 30 | Electricity charges are to go up by at least 5.8 per cent from April 1st . |