Example sentences of "[subord] i be 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 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 3 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ So I am to be punished , after all ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So I was to be delivered back to that fool , was I ? |
| 7 | If I am to be punished unfairly , could we return to the subject of volunteering for the Parachute School ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’ |
| 9 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 10 | Planning over an 11-year period could , I believe , bring about a veritable revolution , especially if the whole curriculum ( both subjects and cross-curricular themes ) can be welded together , but I want to see some rapid practical progress if I am to be reassured . |
| 11 | If I am to be autonomous , God must go . |
| 12 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 13 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 15 | ‘ If I were to be wrapped up warmly , and … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Clive , what about if I were to … ’ |
| 17 | If I WERE to a take a bath I would not turn both taps fully on since this is bound to result in a freezing cold bath . |
| 18 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 19 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance . |
| 22 | If I were to be denied my belief in the almost limitless potential of my students , I 'd give up . |
| 23 | especially if I were to actually get , if I get that I 'd consider going if I could get a place in the halls , the residence |
| 24 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 25 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 26 | If , er if I was to further refine that I would argue quite strongly that a lot of people see it as their duty to vote in general elections mm ? |
| 27 | I mean if I was to s stand here and tell you that self-raising flour is classed as an X one , as a class one explosive dust |
| 28 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 29 | If I was to sort of pinch the muscle at the back here ? |
| 30 | If I was to er ask you to er just for the next ten minutes to start listing out the advertisers that you think might go into these , my guess is you 'd only get twenty five percent |