Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 2 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 3 | SINGER Cathy Dennis is to star in an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | SEX goddess Britt Ekland is to appear in the radio soap opera The Archers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 12 | DRIVERS in East Anglia are to benefit from a major increase in road maintenance investment in 1993/4 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | IRELAND are to resign from the Cricket Council , in order to seek associate membership of ICC . |
| 15 | Without Gooch , the victim of food poisoning the night before the game , much depended on Mike Gatting if England were to escape with a draw following India 's first innings run-riot of 560 for six declared . |
| 16 | Actor Robert Englund is to return in a seventh Nightmare on Elm Street film next year , despite moguls vowing Freddy 's Dead : The Final Nightmare was the last . |
| 17 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 18 | ACTRESS Lysette Anthony is to star in a Basic Instinct-style thriller . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 21 | Chiarelli was to remain in the government to oversee integration with neighbouring countries in the South American Common Market ( Mercosur — see pp. 38096 ; 38331 ] . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Christopher was to embark on a painful programme of physiotherapy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lennie knows he has n't any time to play with if Boro are to stay in the big time . |
| 27 | JOSE Carreras and Montserrat Caballe are to star at a new summer classical music festival at Hampton Court Palace . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Brady is to appear before the SFA Disciplinary Committee after an incident against Airdrie at Parkhead on October 24 . |