Example sentences of "[be] to [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | well maybe that would be to English |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The most difficult job will be to rehouse and reshape soccer while remembering just who it really belongs to . |
| 10 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 11 | He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My only hope , should I ever see the show again , would be to cling-film the whole face and fasten it below the chin with a Twist'n Seal . |
| 15 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 16 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 17 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 18 | The most obvious way of obtaining these two facilities would be to keyboard the Supplement entries into the correct places as the OED text was being keyboarded . |
| 19 | On the political side , Taiwanese worry that the more money they invest in China , the more vulnerable they will be to manipulation by the Chinese government . |
| 20 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 21 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 22 | My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt . |
| 23 | They had a revolutionary theory that the combined effect of all these ‘ struggles ’ would be to needle and irritate the capitalist system until it finally collapsed in an exhausted heap and died . |
| 24 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 25 | The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa . |
| 26 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 27 | In Kent , the natural progression for a care manager would be to group leader , supervising five to ten care managers , then to locality manager , and finally to one of five area commissioners . |
| 28 | Aims to speed up the process of development control and make the planning system ‘ as positive and as helpful as it can be to investment in industry and commerce , and to the development industry ’ . |
| 29 | One solution would be to silicone the hangar to the tank wall , but that would mean draining the tank . |
| 30 | One of Lehman 's main tasks will be to value ITN . |