Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course , his successor , Sir Kenneth Newman , echoed this anti-intellectual stance , when he warned insiders that ‘ policemen must remember that they are practitioners , not crusaders ; theirs is to do , not to righteously philosophise ’ ( Police Journal 56 , No. 1 ( 1983 ) ) . |
| 2 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 3 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ She is to join us forthwith , ’ explained Elizabeth Woodville . |
| 5 | ‘ You know she does n't have the voice , and she 'll already be covering two heavy roles if she is to lead in the Baron and sing Juliette in our new Luxembourg . |
| 6 | And if she is to lose the inheritance , you may set it all to my account . |
| 7 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 8 | She will need to go if she is to take what would seem to be a deserved place in the record books . |
| 9 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 10 | So indeed should the woman for she is to submit to her husband as she would to the Lord himself . |
| 11 | She is to undergo repairs following the crack which appeared in the deck . |
| 12 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 13 | In terms of historical change , manual workers of both sexes work today almost as many hours each week as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s ; this demonstrates the fact that , where available , overtime is a crucial necessity for the manual worker if he or she is to receive a wage at or above the ‘ average ’ for all manual occupations . |
| 14 | Now She is to spend £20,000 trying to find out ‘ what people want and what their views are on how we spend their money . ’ |
| 15 | " She is to leave immediately . |
| 16 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 17 | One child volunteers to leave the room where she is to touch an article agreed upon by the other players . |
| 18 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 19 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 20 | ‘ It is going to be a colossal year for her and she will need to draw on every positive lesson she has ever learned if she is to get through it . ’ |
| 21 | Good , then you must make her responsibilities even clearer , by defining key areas where she is to get a result . |
| 22 | But Wallasey MP Angela Eagle said today that she is to raise the matter in Parliament . |
| 23 | But Wallasey MP Angela Eagle said today that she is to raise the matter in Parliament . |
| 24 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 25 | Sarah 's death is vital to the machines as she is to become the mother of John Connor , the charismatic leader of the remaining pockets of human resistance in the Terminator 's own time . |
| 26 | The Queen of the Night must understand these instincts , if she is to have control over them ; she must know her own wildness , and sense within herself the vigilance of the owl and the cunning of the fox before she can bring them into her domain . |
| 27 | The angel goes on to inform Mary that she is to have a child . |
| 28 | The failure of a chromosome to split properly is much more common in women over the age of about 35 — the older the woman is the more likely she is to have a baby with Down 's . |
| 29 | In these regions , early marriage is clearly incompatible with the formal schooling of women ; the more educated the woman , the less likely she is to have ever married . |
| 30 | It may mean a 5 a.m. start from the country if she is to have her regular swim before going into the office , but if she is going to see WHS in Swindon or Heathcote in Warwick , it is more convenient for her to stay in Gloucestershire than to come back to London . |