Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest . |
| 2 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 3 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 4 | The key to the repressive discipline advocated in this manual of behaviour is that it is to be the means by which man is liberated from all that thwarts his true nature , just as the dancer can only use his body expressively if he trains his muscles : " those move easiest who have learnt to dance " . |
| 5 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 6 | It was an insignificant moment , no one there would have thought that it was to be the first movement in such a great drama , not only for them but also for those watching . |
| 7 | The witches tell him that he is to be the next king , and instead of leaving the matter to take its natural course , he murders the King , and claims the throne . |
| 8 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 9 | God spoke on three February mornings to John Reeve , and told him that he was to be the prophet and his cousin was to be Reeve 's mouth . |
| 10 | Self-interest plays a part but the clubs have a strong case when they argue that if they are to be the mentors to the young , society must help to foot the bill . |
| 11 | There are three vital programmes in which you must train your lecturers if they are to be the advisers and guides that they are supposed to be . |
| 12 | And he was to be the first of a growing number of police officers to take part once a week — as we tried to persuade our viewers to do more to help the police in preventing and solving crimes , as well as catching the villains . |
| 13 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 14 | We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last . |
| 15 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 16 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 17 | Serve warm , cut into neat squares for tapas , or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal . |
| 18 | Burnard and Chapman go further-than this definition , by recommending that knowledge should be research based and up to date if it is to be the best for accountability in practice . |
| 19 | The party needs a shake-out , if it is to be the driving-force on the compassionate side of the new politics . |
| 20 | On the 13th , MacDonald had noted in his diary that Cabinet-making looked ‘ as if it is to be the most horrible job of my life . |
| 21 | But if it was to be the first triumphant scream of Morrissey 's revenge , then it was certainly a just reward for Johnny Marr . |
| 22 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 23 | Since he was to be the founder of the service of carols and nine lessons , he made a permanent mark on English , and not only English , life and religion . |
| 24 | Since it was to be the Village 's other paper the name was simple , the East Village Other . |
| 25 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 26 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 27 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |