Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleveland police are to object to the transfer of a licence for Henry Afrika 's nightclub in Norton Road , Stockton when the case is heard next month . |
| 2 | Twelve hundred and twenty jobs are to go with the closure of the Ravenscraig steel works in Scotland . |
| 3 | 42 jobs are to go with the closure of accountacy firm KPMG Peat Marwick in Cheltenham . |
| 4 | Up to fourteen hundred defence jobs are to go with the closure of the Portland naval base and a cutback in the workload at Portsmouth . |
| 5 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 6 | This may mean we need younger managers , if we are to capitalize on the correlation of ‘ helicopter ’ ability with managerial performance . |
| 7 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 9 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 10 | ‘ 'You 're to go at the beginning of January , but I shall have to wait till all this house business is finished . |
| 11 | If politics is regarded as conflict over whose preferences are to prevail in the determination of policy , then the budget records the outcomes of this struggle . |
| 12 | But that must change on Wednesday if England are to win by the sort of margin that will enhance their hopes of World Cup qualification . |
| 13 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |
| 14 | The specific reasons for this are to do with the development of the English Labour movement in relation to the development of British capitalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 16 | Orion Advanced Chemical Technologies , part of Ferruzzi-Montedison , and the University of California 's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are to cooperate in the development of a new process for producing raw materials used by the petrochemical industry from natural gas . |
| 17 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 18 | " Mother Benedicta told me yesterday that in a year or two I 'm to go to the village of Yelton . |
| 19 | A primary role of the party in the new disposition , he said , would be to work against the threat of social polarization inherent in restructuring and the move towards a market economy . |
| 20 | Yet I am bound to start with it , if I 'm to talk about the story of Jackson Pollock and his wife , the painter Lee Krasner . |
| 21 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 22 | An even more revealing way to consider the changes in the popularity of divorce would be to look at the proportion of each marriage cohort that divorces after a particular period of time . |
| 23 | In that case , one way of inflicting a loss of profit in retaliation for reneging on the agreement would be to revert to the NE of the one-shot game , either permanently or for a number of periods sufficient to wipe out the gains from reneging , if that is possible . |
| 24 | It must be to do with the power of the Worm . |
| 25 | The having adoption of a strategic exceptions policy is an invitation for many possible major developments to be to ride on the back of the strategic in exceptions policies and to argue that they come within in . |
| 26 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 27 | Our European priorities now should be to campaign for the sort of policies and changes we would like to see in nineteen ninety six and seek the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 28 | The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate . |
| 29 | and the first job for the new manager could be to decide on the future of two of United 's stars … |
| 30 | All we would need to do would be to chop off the head of the price raisers . |