Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [am/are] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 2 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 3 | Where there are to be music fades in and out at the transfer , leave plenty of overlap at the beginnings and endings of the pre-recorded sections to give yourself ample working margins at the mixing stage . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : [ furious ] And is it thus in my fond conceding moments that I am to be answered and despised ? |
| 5 | I 'm less worried about being discourteous to relatives that I am to er other people , frankly . |
| 6 | Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ? |
| 7 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 8 | I am much more sympathetic to that proposal than I am to the opt-out proposal advanced by the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) . |
| 9 | ‘ So I am to be punished , after all ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |
| 11 | e.g. At the beginning of a lesson you may be told that you are to " make written notes on the rise of Louis Napoleon , paying particular attention to his sense of historic mission , his coups and his writings " . |
| 12 | It is now easy to see that any QDM received which is a smaller figure than the desired track QDM means that you are to the left of your track . |
| 13 | Any QDM received which is a larger figure than the desired track QDM means that you are to the right of your track . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't pretend that you are to be cured , my lady , ’ smiled the doctor , from under the Physical bob-wig that marked his profession . |
| 15 | How accountable do you feel that you are to the public ? |
| 16 | A new little contraption we want to try out , so you 're to be a guinea pig . |
| 17 | Yet another principle is that we are to be ‘ subject to one another out of reverence to Christ ’ ( Eph. 5.21 ) and this applies to each of us — men as well as women — whatever our particular calling in the Church may be . |
| 18 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 19 | There is no reason to suppose we will be any better , in the long run , at demonstrating respect towards our partner than we are to our parents and relatives . |
| 20 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 21 | It has been announced that there are to be steam runs over the Central Wales line this year , the first one on the 16th May . |
| 22 | It is a disappointment that there are to be 600 redundancies , but there is a continuing significant level of employment in defence at Barrow which is dependent on it and which has been sustained by the Government 's commitment to a strong defence . |
| 23 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 24 | ‘ Half the songs are more relevant to America than they are to Britain , ’ agrees Jim Bob . |
| 25 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 26 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 27 | While a radical feminist like Millett can argue that ‘ male and female are really two cultures , and their life experiences are utterly different ’ , Marxist feminists would argue that the life experiences of middle-class women are much closer to those of middle-class men than they are to those of working-class women . |
| 28 | Certainly , among extreme Ulster unionists we continue to find a discourse of antiCatholicism which employs scriptural apocalyptic images which one suspects would be more readily comprehensible to late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century audiences than they are to most twentieth-century ones . |
| 29 | Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish , since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters . |
| 30 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |