Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 2 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 3 | SEX goddess Britt Ekland is to appear in the radio soap opera The Archers . |
| 4 | And the headlines this lunchtime it 's confirmed that Calverton Colliery in Nottinghamshire is to go into the review procedure putting another six hundred miners ' jobs at risk . |
| 5 | The programme , which Gorbachev was to present to the G-7 summit in London , was said to combine elements of the rival plans widely canvassed in June [ see p. 38272 ] , i.e. the official " anti-crisis " programme of Prime Minister Pavlov , and the radical " grand bargain " proposals of economist Grigory Yavlinsky . |
| 6 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 7 | At a humbler level , it gave him the service of Richard Barnby of Great Gonerby , whom Richard was to add to the Lincolnshire commission of array in winter 1484 . |
| 8 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's plan for the British attack in Flanders was to break through the German line from the Ypres salient and then encircle the German right flank resting on the North Sea coast . |
| 9 | But that must change on Wednesday if England are to win by the sort of margin that will enhance their hopes of World Cup qualification . |
| 10 | IRELAND are to resign from the Cricket Council , in order to seek associate membership of ICC . |
| 11 | The version that Bethel was working towards in this statement was not precisely the road that the CNAA was to take in the mid-1980s but it was an outline model of development at the end of the 1970s which attempted to go beyond the decisions contained in the CNAA 's 1979 document . |
| 12 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 13 | Chiarelli was to remain in the government to oversee integration with neighbouring countries in the South American Common Market ( Mercosur — see pp. 38096 ; 38331 ] . |
| 14 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 15 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 16 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 17 | Lennie knows he has n't any time to play with if Boro are to stay in the big time . |
| 18 | And if Pig Street were to fall under the axe , there would be a real rag-bag of properties of every sort razed to the ground , including — from the sublime to the ridiculous — a tennis court and a dung pit : |
| 19 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 20 | Brady is to appear before the SFA Disciplinary Committee after an incident against Airdrie at Parkhead on October 24 . |
| 21 | Burke is to advise on the implementation of proposals in the government 's white paper on the environment , criticised by environmentalists as being too weak . |
| 22 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
| 23 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 24 | Ltd. and Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Maats of Rotterdam was to operate from the Albert Dock . |
| 25 | Here we find the theoretical corollary of what Althusser was to characterize as the tragic ‘ double thesis ’ of Sartre 's ‘ historicist humanism ’ , and which produced , in Michael Sprinker 's words , a ‘ ceaseless rebounding between the poles of revolutionary optimism and historical pessimism ’ . |
| 26 | John Patten was to reply to the debate on education and there was to be a debate on defence . |
| 27 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 28 | Under the terms of the accord , all Zimbabwean troops in Mozambique were to withdraw to the Beira and Limpopo corridors , the two strategic routes linking landlocked Zimbabwe with the Mozambican ports of Beira and Maputo . |
| 29 | The BBC TV programme Crimewatch UK is to join in the search for 18-year-old student Dinah McNicol , who was last seen in August , by showing a reconstruction of her last known movements . |
| 30 | Mr. J.G.S. Gammell is to retire from the Board following the Annual General Meeting after 36 years of service . |