Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full course of study was to last only a year . |
| 2 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 3 | Baker countered by saying that critics had failed to recognize the importance of the huge cutbacks the Soviet Union had agreed to make and that the US proposal was to allow only a very limited Soviet capacity to modernize . |
| 4 | A LUXURY £12 million hotel with a TV theme is to open just a stone 's throw from Coronation Street . |
| 5 | Their first move was to put together a leaflet containing a map of the areas being prospected and a list of concerns related to the effects of gold mining : this was distributed in June . |
| 6 | The purpose of this paper is to put forward a case for developing the online catalogue 's potential as an interactive retrieval tool for the library user . |
| 7 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |
| 8 | The area is known as referential communication , as the role of the speaker is to describe verbally a given object ( or , more rarely , an action or relationship ) , so that the listener , relying entirely on the language received , can work out what the message refers to . |
| 9 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 10 | The objective of their ‘ Unified Unix ’ vision is to put together a cost structure for open operating environments that can match NT on the desktop . |
| 11 | If a price rise were to discourage even a small proportion of buyers , then that basic cost would rise yet further . |
| 12 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
| 13 | The most essential thing is to prune once a year , and if you miss the summer , prune in winter . |
| 14 | The aim of this project is to collect systematically a data base which will serve as a permanent collection open to all researchers in the UK . |
| 15 | What is clear , though , is that Shakespeare 's presence on the National Curriculum is to represent both a timeless cultural importance and one specific to the Renaissance . |
| 16 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 17 | One response was to create both an exodus of talent from the country and capital flight . |