Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [be] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 2 | The main thing for me at this stage in my career is to be in a well organised team which will help me win the 250 World Championship . |
| 3 | For students all too easily feel that they have to come up with negative assessments if their appraisals are to be worth anything . |
| 4 | She wants to be known as Our Lady of Blémont-la-Fontaine , and her feast-day is to be in early September on the day we have the harvest festival . |
| 5 | But any oath of peace , if its terms were to be at all realistic , needed to include the Aquitainian rebels . |
| 6 | Its decisions were to be by majority vote , and its verdicts would be final . |
| 7 | He was an explorer and naturalist — his lecture was to be about his expedition to an unexplored part of the Canadian Arctic looking for wild geese . |
| 8 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 9 | His instinct was to be beside her even in captivity . |
| 10 | Brief as his role was to be in the battle , it was one of quite exceptional importance . |
| 11 | And our Colin was to be off t' fair , and that , so , me dad sort of went on to our John and pushed our Colin out a little bit . |
| 12 | But ‘ all these things are a matter of judgement , ’ thinks David Livermore , IBM 's director in charge of the environment , ‘ and our intention is to be in the forefront . ’ |
| 13 | And if our drama is to be at all dramatic we 'll need to put those people in a difficult situation , one which confronts them with choices . |
| 14 | ‘ Our goal is to be in the top five , ’ Voss states confidently . |