Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’
2 I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case …
3 Without the which I am not to be won ,
4 ‘ It seems I am not to be Archdeacon of Woodborough .
5 " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ?
6 Sir , I am not to be caught by a bait so poorly covered as this !
7 I am not to be intimidated by house plants and silk ties , she thought .
8 I hope I am not to be cast absolutely into the outer darkness , Helen — I should find that very wretched . ’
9 And incidentally , ’ added the canny Scot , ‘ I am now to be known as Princess Deborah Barbecue .
10 As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’
11 And a little nervous that I am about to be ticked off for my unorthodox and amiable occupation of the Rosenbloom .
12 My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore .
13 I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up .
14 I 'm yet to be convinced . ’
15 I 'm not to be turned into the street ? ’
16 So I 'm not to be coddled like a twelve-year-old , thank you very much .
17 ‘ Do n't you be taken in , I 'm not to be trusted , ’ he said , noticing that his spectacles were steamed up .
18 ‘ If I 'm not to be allowed Mozart , why not somebody with an appropriate gloom quotient like Mahler ?
19 I 'm not to be bought .
20 I 'm not to be a pawn in your game , Benedict ! ’
21 ‘ Well , for the first , as far as I 'm concerned they do n't go without the second , and for the second , I do n't believe I 'm about to be asked . ’
22 As the front-man , ever in vision , I accept I 'm there to be shot at .
23 At the moment , I 'm still to be convinced .
24 This represents the number of entries subsequent the specified print sequence number which are also to be proofed .
25 This represents the number of entries subsequent the specified print sequence number which are also to be cross-referenced .
26 Others have drawn attention to the weak political culture : ‘ I perceive the most significant structural defect of our democracy in the lethargy and apathy which are increasingly to be found within our parties and other groups …
27 Our brief list contains four which are not to be found in the BL catalogue as we have seen .
28 Publishers rarely , if ever , charge for personal things like Christmas cards which are not to be offered for sale
29 Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words .
30 Any terms in light type which are not to be used as headings in the catalogue direct the cataloguer to a ‘ used ’ heading covering the same or a similar concept .
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