Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [subord] the " in BNC.

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1 A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission .
2 Some jobs are to go when the Aberystwyth based family owned Cambrian News weekly newspaper places the paper 's printing contract with another company , possibly in Swansea .
3 Now they 're to close because the American owners can make more money transferring production to Leeds shedding 330 jobs .
4 Others write letters ( in role ) to relatives and friends in other parts of the country telling them what has happened , and ( for the most part ) excitedly proclaiming how easy it will be to visit once the line is built .
5 The next step would be to explore whether the " others " could be represented in Byron 's poetry by people who follow the religion of Islam .
6 His task was to be to assess whether the Commonwealth could assist with constitutional negotiations .
7 Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground .
8 The first part of the research will focus on local authorities ' total expenditure , whilst the second principle objective of the research will be to investigate whether the reforms lead to a change in the pattern of service provision .
9 But if Chapman 's death is to provoke any analysis it might be to ask whether the Pythons achieved their original aim of breaking the mould of English television comedy , doing away with the studio applause , the guest star , the musical interlude , even on occasion the punchline .
10 At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed .
11 After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times .
12 Fifteen minutes were to pass before the bell rang a second time , succeeded by that awful rattle .
13 Two decades were to pass before the prison building programme reached a scale that was to become significant in terms of public expenditure .
14 This brought the Poles to the Lothians , Fife , Perthshire and Angus , the areas where many were to stay when the threat of invasion had lifted .
15 If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one .
16 Many incidents of a similarly charming nature were to follow as the years went by , without any diminution in the public fascination with this spinster lady from a remote Yorkshire dale dressed in complex layers of well-laundered rags .
17 A further twenty-seven years were to elapse before the railway reached its ultimate terminus at the Kyle of Lochalsh .
18 The first move , therefore , is to see whether the level of the available lighting can be improved without making any radical changes .
19 One of BRAC 's concerns at present is to see whether the lobon-gur solution has become part of the Bangladeshi culture , in so far as the mothers taught by BRAC 's Oral Therapy Replacement Workers might pass their knowledge down to their children .
20 The jury 's task is to see whether the duty arose on the facts .
21 ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’
22 The idea is to see if the terms on which bargainers settle can be influenced by such cues .
23 The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures .
24 Another treatment is to wait until the initial set has taken place , and then , using water and a brush , clean off all the fine material , to expose the larger aggregate .
25 The internecine war that is to continue until the present day begins with a battle between right-wing Christian Falangists and left-wing Muslim Palestinians .
26 All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow .
27 The program 's task , given a diagram like that of Figure 2 , is to discover whether the arrangements of blocks depicted is stable , — if it is not — to predict the movements ( falling , sliding , motion ended by contact with another block ) and the final state of various blocks .
28 The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language .
29 The purpose of the investigation is to establish whether the authority should make an application for a court order or exercise any other powers it may have under the Act ( s47(3) ( a ) ) .
30 In general , the rule with haggling is to do as the locals do , taking particular care not to beat down those who are selling items they have made themselves .
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