Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO police officers are to go to jail for their part in the massacre of guerrilla prisoners in a Lima prison in June , 1986 . |
| 2 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |
| 3 | If high speed trains are to continue to run on it , then £800m needs to be spent on upgrading this route , but the Government is refusing to make the necessary investment . |
| 4 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 5 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 6 | If we are to encourage reading for information , education , and enjoyment , then libraries themselves — the stock , the staff , and accommodation — need to be informative , educative , and enjoyable . |
| 7 | Within Oxford Polytechnic , one consequence of Modular Course evaluation activities has been to sharpen thinking about course and institutional goals . |
| 8 | If they are to avoid falling into the theoretical machinery that perpetuates such stereotypes , women are obliged constantly to dodge the conceptual apparatuses that seek to mould their language . |
| 9 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 10 | Crisis loans are to help pay for things needed urgently because of an emergency or disaster . |
| 11 | The savings — altogether £100m over the period of the scheme — are to help pay for safety improvements at football grounds . |
| 12 | FIFTEEN dentists ' practices are to consider resigning from the NHS over proposed government funding cuts they fear could lead to bankruptcy . |
| 13 | Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time . |
| 14 | ‘ You are to start talking to him , Miss Quinn . |
| 15 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |
| 16 | I read them to broaden my own theoretical thinking , which is important if I 'm to continue to develop as a manager and to increase my effectiveness . ’ |
| 17 | Without time to think , the only alternative would be to stand paralysed by shock , unaware of what is happening to me , or be aware of the danger but too confused to know how to escape in the instant available . |
| 18 | Perhaps if there really was ( and is ) ‘ widespread discontent … about the quality of education ’ , the best remedy would be to enhance teaching as a profession so as to attract and retain the best recruits , by paying them proper salaries and by promoting those who teach well , in such a way that they stay in the classroom instead of becoming administrators . |
| 19 | His role will be to help develop with other departments a strategy to bring about the transformation in our understanding and use of science and technology in our society that is so important to the country 's future . |
| 20 | ‘ To do a deal with the Liberal Democrats would be to help put in power a party which has just lost a share of its vote , ’ said one source . |
| 21 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 22 | We saw in Chapter 7 how the enemy is ‘ homosexualized ’ , with the result that , even while homosexuals were being imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis , it could be said that to eliminate homosexuality would be to get rid of fascism . |
| 23 | So the simplest , and most efficient , way of taxing company profits may be to get rid of corporate taxes altogether and simply tax the money when it gets to the owners . |
| 24 | I mean my , all my efforts after Christmas will be to get rid of these card debts . |
| 25 | If the pain comes on when the cat is out patrolling its territory , its natural reaction will be to attempt to hide from the ‘ attacker ’ . |
| 26 | One logical solution recommended in the report would be to stop shipping in western grain and to start buying Somali farmers ' crops instead . |
| 27 | He insisted the scheme was not in tatters and the main effect of the banks ' decision would be to make applying for a loan less convenient for students . |
| 28 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 29 | Ghozali 's immediate reaction to the amendments had been to threaten to ask for a second reading of the bill . |
| 30 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |