Example sentences of "of [pron] be [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er |
| 2 | The two of them are off to ride for Britain in the European championships … their first big international test … their time has come … |
| 3 | Some of them were out to show that they could achieve good quality community care at a lower cost than hospitals , or to provide community care which was at least no more expensive than a hospital . |
| 4 | One of them was later to intervene to save his life . |
| 5 | It was beginning to seem as if neither of them was ever to achieve their heart 's desires , even while making a success of other aspects of their lives . |
| 6 | One of which is not to open it . |
| 7 | All of which is not to deny that , in that hugely complex tradition which is Marxism , there are profound insights which need to be kept in sight . |
| 8 | We 've seen training , there have been four major steps for training and the first of which is actually to identify training needs . |
| 9 | If a number of people for purely social or philanthropic reasons agreed upon a joint plan of action , the purpose of which was not to make a profit , this would not be a partnership . |
| 10 | The CNAA gave its first approval to a modular course , for example , in 1972 — the logic of which was ultimately to bring the Council strongly into the field of credit accumulation and transfer . |
| 11 | In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones . |
| 12 | Oddly enough , in the next murder case I found myself investigating , Geoffrey was to play a small , terminal part , the effects of which were slightly to take the gilt from my findings . |
| 13 | So whether your group consists of friends or colleagues travelling for pleasure or maybe as an incentive prize or any other reason you can think of we are here to smooth your path and speed you on your way . |
| 14 | Well , some of us in football still have principles and one of mine is never to refuse a drink . |
| 15 | ME AND THIS OLD FRIEND of mine are about to go out to the movies . |
| 16 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 17 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 18 | I lost so much weight in there , although most of it was down to worry , stress : ‘ My baby 's going to come out this and that . ’ |
| 19 | Recording sessions in the '90s are well organised , with musicians having at least some idea of what 's about to go down . |
| 20 | Is there in Eastern Europe a hideous environmental prototype of what is about to happen in the developing world ? |
| 21 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 22 | Dr van der Merwe 's bones or , rather , those of the Crow Indians of the Ohio valley , are helping to trace the spread of maize across the Americas and establish how , by the time that the conquistadores arrived , it was powering not only the imperial civilisations of Mexico , but the modest villages of what was shortly to become New England . |
| 23 | A hint of what was soon to befall Romania 's historic buildings came in 1976 when Ceauşescu withdrew his country from the UNESCO agreement on the preservation of the architectural heritage . |
| 24 | Later , much later , after the war , Mr Chatto was installed , and after him John Sandoe came along , in 1957 , and that is when I first really took notice of what was soon to become a ‘ singular bookshop ’ as opposed to just a bookseller . |
| 25 | According to someone who knows both of them well and was on the same flight back to America with them from Frankfurt it was clear that Brandi had no prior knowledge of what was about to happen . |
| 26 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 27 | After all , there was no need for Doreen to learn of what was about to happen to the house . |
| 28 | Significantly , however , in view of what was subsequently to happen , during the week leading up to the ballot there were growing reservations among her supporters , including ministers , about such a course of action . |
| 29 | A lot of us are here to see how this sort of debate goes , but some people will be very competitive . |