Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A slow but dramatic way of allocating roles is to come to the children ( probably gathered in a circle ) and ask them who 's who in role : " I 'm a stranger here . |
| 2 | The only possible savings would be from reductions in the number of teachers in the maintained schools , which would come about if parents were to stick to the survey preferences that they indicated for the independent sector . |
| 3 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 4 | If Elves were to sail to the Isle today they would find the High Elf mages of old , caught like flies in amber , still chanting their ages-long spells to preserve the balance of the world . |
| 5 | Mediation theory requires that X and Y be rather different from each other if the formation of A-X and B-Y associations is to lead to an increase in the discriminability of A and B. 1f X and Y are made more similar , the effect will be reduced ( the limiting case , when X and Y are identical , being that in which acquired equivalence is held to occur ) . |
| 6 | In Figure 9.9 this would occur if the boundary between the solid and liquid phases were to move to the right as pressures get large . |
| 7 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 8 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Unless a different intention appears , the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 11 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 12 | Parish councillors are to write to the borough council for permission to fell the tress because of the risk of root damage to nearby houses . |
| 13 | Traffic concern : Parish councillors are to write to the borough council and Durham County Council over plans for the new cattle market at Roundhill Road . |
| 14 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 15 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 16 | I presume that the best way of keeping abreast of any developments is to write to the self help group which is extremely active . |
| 17 | A GROUP of criminal lawyers is to complain to the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , about the huge legal bill for six paratroopers acquitted last week on charges arising out of a fracas in Coalisland . |
| 18 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 19 | In Uganda the nationalizations were to extend to the import and export business , although President Milton Obote in his first presidency was ousted by General Amin before being able to implement the programme . |
| 20 | HUNDREDS of Maxwell pensioners are to march to the Commons tomorrow on the eve of the anniversary of the publisher 's death . |
| 21 | Cleveland police are to object to the transfer of a licence for Henry Afrika 's nightclub in Norton Road , Stockton when the case is heard next month . |
| 22 | Following further argument in Rome , it was decided that episcopal elections were to fall to the convents of Coventry and Lichfield by turn . |
| 23 | Such an unwieldy force consisting of some 200 men was to travel to the target area in 40 jeeps accompanied by another 40 3-ton lorries carrying supplies . |
| 24 | In a study conducted in the 1960s , Rex and Moore ( 1967 ) argued that the shared desire of people living in cities is to move to the suburbs . |
| 25 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 26 | From his moneys , each school was to pay a master £10 per annum and forty shillings was to go to the trustees to cover expenses of their meetings . |
| 27 | A GROUP of mothers and daughters are to take to the streets later this month in protest at plans to close an old people 's home in Co Down . |