Example sentences of "[be] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But councillors are lokking for a more long term , solution … they 're to petion the county council for money for full time youth workers . |
| 2 | You 're to bolt and bar the house up , she says to me . |
| 3 | If I went anywhere it would be to Florida and Las Vegas for gambling . ’ |
| 4 | ZIMBABWE 'S debut Test tour as a first-class cricket nation will be to India , it was announced yesterday . |
| 5 | It may not be to women 's advantage , but it is there , and it acknowledges the power , albeit negative , of women 's cycles of fertility . |
| 6 | Some argue that the dominant effect of the new technology will be to de-skill the workforce , destroying craft occupations and fragmenting jobs into meaningless elements which can be performed by unskilled operators controlled by large-scale bureaucracies run in the interests of international capital . |
| 7 | well maybe that would be to English |
| 8 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 9 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 10 | the rise of the Country Dancing Clubs was maybe be to kind of try and compensate in a way for the dances themselves going down , ordinary dances , folk were wanting to do the Scottish dancing and things ? |
| 11 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 12 | Cos they wo n't need to be to P four limits . |
| 13 | Do n't be to Jacob , I 'll slap your lips off ! |
| 14 | Entry should be to Chris Ebrey on a standard entry card with division marked and a note to indicate whether available to assist for Friday 's practice runs . |
| 15 | Our principle function within the policy development department within N C V O must be to work with , and not simply for our member and the wider sector . |
| 16 | The most difficult job will be to rehouse and reshape soccer while remembering just who it really belongs to . |
| 17 | John Lahr told me of his astonishment at how unpleasant he could be to waiters at the Indian restaurant they visited together . |
| 18 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 19 | It was to be to Grieg 's ‘ Holberg ’ Suite : ‘ It is all most un-Grieg . |
| 20 | He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents . |
| 21 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 22 | This kind of gossip and these misunderstandings only served to bring home to him how grateful he should be to Theo , who was now a believer and supported him willingly . |
| 23 | Malcolm Storry 's bullet-headed Aufidius is not simply a rude barbarian but an acute analyst of Coriolanus 's character : Mr Storry has the priceless gift of making the language tangible so that when he says ‘ I think he 'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish ’ the image comes resonantly alive . |
| 24 | Like the First Directive , its application will be to occupations or occupation activity regulated in some way by , or on behalf of , the state . |
| 25 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 26 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 27 | A recent jumble sale made £200 for the Le Court Cheshire Home , Greatham , and it was announced that the outing this year will be to Sissinghurst , when husbands and friends will be invited to join in . |
| 28 | The August outing is now to be to Westcliff , cost two pounds sixty , seventh of August leaving at nine thirty A M payments to be made at the July meeting . |
| 29 | Most of the information ( and more besides ) could be obtained from the company itself but generally the first step will be to Companies House . |
| 30 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |