Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 2 | If we are to proceed in our quest or to search our land we have to accept that we are unlikely to do so , unless we accept some measure of control ourselves . |
| 3 | Ever the traditionalist , AT&T Co chose late Friday to announce that 1,000 jobs are to go at its transmissions systems Merrimack Valley Works plant in North Andover , Massachusetts : 5,000 employees will remain after the big lay-off ; AT&T cited reduced demand and improved plant efficiencies for the cuts , which are planned for late August . |
| 4 | Fifty four jobs are to go at their plant in Bishops Cleeve near Cheltenham . |
| 5 | ‘ You are to go to your Uncle Philip . ’ |
| 6 | At the McDermott-Scotland yard at Ardersier , near Inverness , 40 workers are to go after its last job , a jacket for Amerada Hess 's Scott oilfield , was shipped out on Tuesday . |
| 7 | Nicole Meissner , 24 , and boyfriend Ebby Thust are to appeal against their jail sentence for blackmailing Peter Graf , 54 , out of Pounds 320,000 . |
| 8 | If you are to sit opposite me at table and walk through my house , then I prefer you to look your best , which I know will be very good indeed . ’ |
| 9 | You will not in future , if you are to remain with us , allow any papers of mine entrusted to you to pass out of your care . |
| 10 | And we are to wait for her ? ’ |
| 11 | You are to demand of them Queen Margaret 's return . |
| 12 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 13 | Surely I am to know of what I am accused , besides wrenching your brother-in-law from his wife ? ’ |
| 14 | If employees are to work at their best they must : |
| 15 | Most of us can recall just how difficult it has been to concentrate on anything else if we have a headache or any other ache and pain . |
| 16 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 17 | One of the particular pleasures of visiting Brno is how welcome you are as a visitor from the west and how interested people often are to talk to you . |
| 18 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 19 | Sorry , I wanted to make two points , I think there 's a big difference between foresters like yourself and the people who 're actually out there logging , and you know , I have no doubt about the work you do at the Oxford Forestry Institute , and several of your tutors and lecturers have been to talk to us , and Friends of the Earth certainly is calling for sustainable management forestry . |
| 20 | EMF have strenuously denied stories suggesting they are to split after their current UK tour . |
| 21 | And then we are to allocate between us so responsibility . |
| 22 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He says you 're to go to his place at sundown . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're to come to my lord Isambard in his own chamber . |
| 25 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
| 26 | and you 're to stay with me … well , until she comes for you or other arrangements are made . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Mrs Peterson says you 're to stay in your room until you 're sent for , ’ she said nervously . |
| 28 | You have n't been to look for them . |
| 29 | ‘ Our policy has always been to look after our customers , not alone supplying them with greeting cards , but also providing them with the back-up services , such as merchandising , advertising material and general advice on how to lay out an effective display , ’ he added . |
| 30 | So if England are to prosper against what will be a packed Turkey defence they must heed their manager 's advice and shoot to kill tomorrow , with Gascoigne , Shearer and Pearce firing the bullets . |