Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made it a rule that she was never to be alone . |
| 2 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 3 | I can assure the hon. Member that there is no question of selling out any section of British industry because it is greatly to the advantage of British industry and the British economy that there should be a satisfactory outcome to the present Uruguay round . |
| 4 | Cooperative activity is central to effective community work and it is therefore to these matters that we turn in concluding this chapter . |
| 5 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 6 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 7 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 8 | The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) . |
| 9 | The rumours were fanned , I suppose , by the fact that we were often to be seen together at professional and social engagements away from the studios . |
| 10 | " You accepted the fact that you were there to be developed , improved and polished , " Eva comments , even if in her case she once took it rather too literally . |
| 11 | Without the benefit of continuous interpretation and hindsight , much of the world of this book would be as incomprehensible to the reader as it was initially to its innocent anthropologist . |