Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know Victor and I are to be married . |
| 2 | ‘ For your information , Lucy and I are to be married — as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Lucy and I are to be married . ’ |
| 4 | Now when we open the scriptures we find clear commands , that th that there are , when we come to Jesus and accept him as our saviour then we are to obey him and we are to be baptized ! |
| 5 | About 300 political prisoners had been deported from Lisbon to Madeira in the autumn and winter of 1930 , and they were to be important in the trouble which followed . |
| 6 | Mrs Ashton is a friend of Mr MacConachie 's bank manager , Mr David France , of the High Row branch of Barclays in Darlington , and he is to be best man . |
| 7 | How can the Secretary of State conceivably claim that Her Majesty 's inspectorate is to be strengthened when its numbers are to be cut by two thirds and it is to be subject to clear and specific direction from the Secretary of State ? |
| 8 | We had another seven years of rationing to come , though we did n't know it , and it was to be many years before things returned to normal , but the war was over . |
| 9 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 10 | LONDON , when John Cranko arrived , was suffering the after-effects of an exhausting war , and it was to be several years before the restrictions and shortages were overcome . |
| 11 | Putting this principle into operation was to prove more difficult and contentious than may have been foreseen , and it was to be several more years before the CNAA was to consider changes in practice and begin consultations towards a new balance of ‘ minimum of control ’ with the duties imposed by the Charter . |
| 12 | Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber . |
| 13 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 14 | Mhm but they 're to be qualified people involved . |
| 15 | Local authorities are to retain overall control of community care services , but they are to be responsible for planning , finance and regulation rather than direct provision . |
| 16 | But they were to be disappointed . |
| 17 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 18 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 19 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 20 | But it was to be another 20 years before the changes had marked effect . |
| 21 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 22 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 23 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |